DUMMY BAR FOR USE IN A CONTINUOUS CASTING PLANT

A starter bar head for a continuous casting plant includes side faces that are directed to, and sealed relative to, the walls of a continuous casting mould, a front face closing the continuous casting mould, and at least one anchoring recess for the hot strand. The anchoring recess departs from a side face of the starter bar head, at least partly penetrates the front face of the starter bar head and is to be filled up by the metal to be cast. It is designed to be widened from the front face to a bottom face of the anchoring recess and includes at least two side walls arranged symmetrically to the longitudinal axis of the starter bar head and directed to the bottom face. The side walls of the anchoring recess pass over into a further recess whose surfaces that border at the mould side walls to be sealed off are directed upwardly, i.e. to the front face of the starter bar head. For making sealing off simpler, reducing the risk of a breakthrough during starting and ensuring a simpler handling of the sealing the further recess passes over into the side face of the starter bar head from which the anchoring recess departs, with a surface that encloses an approximately right angle with this side face.