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HARNESS MOUNT
Unique ID: DOR-9FEE53
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A copper alloy suspension mount for a horse harness pendant. The mount comprises a circular plate with openwork decoration. At the base projecting downwards are two pierced lugs housing a short copper alloy bar (a looped pendant would have attached to this bar). The lugs are oval in shape with circular holes. The bar has a circular cross section. The openwork decoration is asymmetrical and comprises ten apertures of varying irregular and sub-circular shapes and sizes. There are more apertures at one side of the plate and it is possible that the reserve of metal this creates may be a stylized lion rampant ( see database record DENO-C69B56). At the back of the mount is the stub of a single, circular sectioned integral rivet. This is placed off-centre behind the area with fewer openwork apertures.
Date: Late Early-Medieval to Medieval - 11th - 13th century
Dimensions: 26.85 mm x 19.75 mm x 2.00 mm
Weight: 3.41 g
Class: pendant suspension mount
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1050
Date to: Circa AD 1300
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 26.85 mm
Width: 19.75 mm
Thickness: 2 mm
Weight: 3.41 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 26th November 2011
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SCMS 020378
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Decoration style: Openwork
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Dorset (County)
District: East Dorset (District)
To be known as: Pamphill
Spatial coordinates
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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