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Record ID: CORN-3E8125
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy bridle link of double-looped type. The D-section bar has a trilobed, lozengiform, looped terminal at either end with a sub-oval aperture. In the centre of the bar is a rounded and flattened boss between two laterally projecting lobes which are shaped like anvils on their side. The back of the object is flat with a slight depression on the back of the central boss. Similar but incomplete examples of 'strap distributors' are illustrated in Read (2001) on page 62, Fig.38, Nos. 474-5, which were found in South-East Lincolnshire and South-West Wiltshire respectively. Will…
Created on: Tuesday 16th October 2007
Last updated: Friday 8th January 2016
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Record ID: CORN-3E59A6
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy strap end with a zoomorphic terminal and an expanded wedge-shaped split end with two plates and a single, central rivet between them. The animal-head terminal is quite clearly modelled and not stylised, with moulded crest at the top of the head, almond-shaped eyes, centrally ridged and upturned snout and rounded chin. The moulded crest defines the edge of the head and reserves it from the shaft of the strap-end. The shaft is triangular in plan and section, decorated on the top with a line of rectangles, ascending in size from the terminal towards the attachment end, …
Created on: Tuesday 16th October 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 25th March 2015
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