HARNESS FITTING
Unique ID: YORYM-681D41
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation 
Cast copper alloy petal boss fitting dating from the Late Iron Age to the Roman period. The fitting has a classic petal boss form, this being a tear-drop shape in plan with a raised, circular boss in the centre. On the reverse, the boss shows as a concavity. There is a lug on the reverse; this has a straight, subrectangular-sectioned shaft with a lug, positioned at a right angle to the shaft. There is a casting seam along one side of the shaft.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: IRON AGE
Period from: IRON AGE [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: ROMAN
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Date from: Circa 300 BC
Date to: Circa AD 200
Dimensions and weight
Length: 21.1 mm
Width: 16 mm
Thickness: 6.9 mm
Weight: 4.47 g
Quantity: 1
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 24th August 2007
Personal details
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Recorded by: Beth
Echtenacher
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Identified by: Beth
Echtenacher - [view all attributed records]
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Manufacture method: Cast [scope notes | view all attributed records]
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Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire And The Humber
County: East Riding Of Yorkshire
District: East Riding Of Yorkshire
Parish: Hayton
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SE8245
Four figure Latitude: 53.8947 Four figure longitude: -0.753677
1:25K map: SE8245
1:10K map: SE84NW
Grid reference source: Centred on village (which isn't a parish)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
Discovery metadata
Method of discovery: Metal detector [scope notes]
General landuse: Cultivated land[scope notes]
Adjacent Domesday Book places
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Created:
Tuesday 11th September 2007
Updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
