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Late Bronze Age harness reel (electrotype)
A slotted reel object, baluster-shaped, with flat buffer-like terminals and a broad longitudinal slot into which could fit the loop of terret ring 75.26H/1, leaving room on both sides for a leather strap to pass through the slot and the ring.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
75.26H/2
Find Information
Site Name: Dinorben, Parc-y-meirch
Notes: the original was found "before 1868" with human(?) bones in debris at the foot of a crag outside the north-west corner of the hillfort. It is now in Hull Museum
Acquisition
Donation, 29/9/1975
Measurements
length / mm:54.0
diameter / mm:17.0 (of centre)
diameter / mm:28.5 (terminal)
weight / g:61.7
Material
electrotype
Location
Industry and Trade
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