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Description: | A fragment of a copper alloy early-medieval (AD c.550-c.600) possible horse harness strap fitting. Overall, the fragment measures 25.0mm long, 16.7mm wide and 1.9mm thick. It weighs 3.19g. The fragment is broken at both ends and has tapering sides. It measures 12.7mm wide at the narrow end. The front of the object gilded and is decorated in Style I, thus dating the fragment to the second half of the 6th century. At the narrow end, there is a broken recessed circle with a raised edge within a raised ring. At the wide end the break appears to have broken along the edge of two smaller but similar circles. Between the ends the surface is divided into three areas by two longitudinal raised lines. The central area has a twisted figure of eight pattern. The left area has a pattern of five chevron-like motifs, point downwards, and the outside arm split into three. The right area has the same pattern but turned through 180 degrees so that the chevrons point upwards.The object's reverse is flat and undecorated.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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