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Description: | A copper alloy harness fitting, a harness link, dating from the Early Medieval period, AD 1000 - 1100. It consists of two lozenge shaped terminals connected to each other at one corner by a bar of D shaped section. Each terminal is pierced with a large circular hole of internal diameter 11mm. The sides of the lozenges are bevelled and there is a small, rounded knop at each of the three unconnected corners. In the centre of the bar is a cylindrical boss, flat on the top and tapering slightly from base to apex. The underside of the fitting is flat. It has a smooth, dark green patina and is 64.7mm long, 19mm wide and 7.7mm thick. It weighs 15.02gm.Other harness fitings of this type are recorded on the database: see for example references LIN-966175, HESH-E37031 and HAMP-4E1172. See also figure 6 on page 5 of FRG Datasheet 39 (D Williams, 2007).
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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