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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Complete harness junction loop with a hollow hook and a lentoid backplate pierced by four tiny holes arranged in a lozenge pattern. The front plate has flat splayed shoulders, chip-carved edges and four circular holes countersunk in circular depression. The front and back plates are of equal length. A set from Lincoln demonstrates how junciton loops were used in groups of four or three hooking onto a central ring (Webster 1949, JRS XXXIX, Pl Xa) Examples are also known from Wroxeter (Webster 1960, nos. 247 & 262. Walbrook (ibid no.153) Sea Mills (ibid No 180) and Verulamium (ibid No 202; Waugh & Goodburn 1972, nos. 124 & 125, AD 105-15).
Site Name: Segontium, Caernarfon
Notes: context 2361 - layer, phase 4 Flavian Trajanic