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Fragments of harness trappings.

1) Check rowels – a pair for each chariot, fastened one end to
  nose-strap, <the> other to saddle on the outside of
each horse, to prevent them/<ir> turning away from each
other.
Rowels: wood covered with gesso, gold leaf and coloured
barks, made to revolve; spikes or/<f> bronze on rowels.

2) Dagger-shaped object, one belonging to 120 and one to 122./<;>
wood, length 35.5 cms (2/<1>20), handle set obliquely
carved into figure of African captive.
  u/<U>se undetermined.

3) Harness fragments, comprising applied leather on a basic linen fabric,
embellishd/<e>d with embossed sheet-gold. Both leather
and linen fabric, with rare exception<s>, has/<ve> completely
perished. Impossible to assign parts of harness to
any chariot in particular; so they are <therefore> treated in the
Card index under no. 122, as most of them were found in
the neighbourhood of body 122, in the Antechamber.
Unless otherwise stated all consist of sheet gold
fastened to a backing made up of 5 layers – , leather,
cloth, gesso, cloth, leather; the leather parts having
largely melted and run. <Indicates raw hide, not leather> There are also
some strips of
thin wood, ? from 121, and linen pieces from 333.
Some of it is undoubtedly harness<,> – e.g. blinkers,
but the larger part seems to belong to something else,
possibly to quivers. Cannot be harness, fot/<r> it sorts
roughly into three sets of single objects, which would
be useless for a pair of horses. Many of the pieces
were sewn round the edges.
122 i-k<)> pairs of blinkers<;>
m-s<)> 9 bosses or disks<;>
t<)> 4 sockets of hollow captive figures, traces of glue inside./<;>
u) p/<P>art of whip-handle, narrow end./<;>
v-llll) p/<P>laques of various shapes and designs, 68 altogether,
whole and fragmentary./<;>
mmmm-rrrr) l/<L>engths of strips of gold sheeting backed with leather,
cloth and gesso;
150 5 strips of thin wood overlaid with gold, with inscrc/<i>ptions
inlaid in glass~~. F~~/<, f>ound lying on ground near wheels of chariot
121.
Portions of harness from 332 and 333 in <">Treasury<">:
a) 3 decorated objev/<c>ts (wooden slivers), 2 <of them> a pair, not understood,
   from either harness or body of chariot;
b) d/<D>isks, pairs of blinkers, plaques and strips of embossed sheet
   gold with leather and linen backing – now mostly perished./<;>
c) l/<L>inen pieces from 333:
    (i) piece of folded linen, ? basis of a leather object./<;>
    (ii) portions of linen housings of horses <of>
       heavy linen material (too decayed to observe
       dimensions or colours); for woven designs
       see photograph.
d) w/<W>hip-stock<,> possibly belonging to chariot 333,
       decorated with gesso, gold and bark, with knob of
       glass with white, blue and yellow chevron pattern.