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HARNESS FITTING
Unique ID: LIN-74C576
Object type certainty: Possibly
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
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.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 550
Date to: Circa AD 600
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 25 mm
Width: 16.7 mm
Thickness: 1.9 mm
Weight: 3.19 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 1st January 2013
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: Field 2: 15
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Surface Treatment: Gilded
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: North Kesteven (District)
To be known as: Sleaford area
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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