Object: Standard fitting
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: British Museum, 1927.12.12.6
Site: England,Kent,near Canterbury
Parish: Canterbury
County: Kent
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 83 of socket
Width (mm): maximum 102; base of socket 19; cross ... at top of socket 26; of lunate plates 19
Thickness (mm): Base of socket 19; Top of socket 7; greatest thickness of plates 3; plates along outer edge 1
Weight (g): 148
Patina: Golden bronze, with traces of black patina.
Surface: Generally smooth except for clipped pitting on side of socket
Description: Circular central socket, pierced by single rivet hole near the mouth, slightly tapering, and terminating in a cross piece decorated at each end with a spherical boss. From near the base of the socket springs, on each side, a thin lunate plate of bronze, which narrows slightly towards the top, which is terminated with the spherical bosses. The upper end of the socket is open.
Remarks: Compare other "standard fittings" from St. Leonards, Longstone, Derbyshire, and Tower St., London