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Cast bronze incomplete harness fitting.
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National Museum Liverpool, Vanessa Oakden, 2009-07-22 16:00:54
Title
Cast bronze incomplete harness fitting.
Description
English: Cast bronze incomplete harness fitting. It is formed of two half U-sectioned rings, with the curve being on the inside edge and one half-ring being placed underneath the other but turned through 90 degrees, so that the line of the curve of the second half-ring runs lengthways back-to-back to the widthways curve of the first half-ring. The four resultant corners, one of which is missing, are also U-shaped in section between the edges of the two half-rings. The surface is highly polished, smooth and shiny. It is dark green in colour. The three surviving corners are damaged and a lighter green in colour. They are quite rough and linear striations can be seen within the grooves.

The object measures 29.47mm in length, 28.10mm in width and weighs 29.8g. It is 7.10mm thick.

Although uncertain of its exact function, it could be a mechanism for using two ropes/ reins which run in different directions.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Cheshire West and Chester
Date between 1500 and 1800
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1800-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Accession number
FindID: 263770
Old ref: LVPL-6E0FE4
Filename: DSCN3371.JPG
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/217132
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/217132/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/263770
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