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HARNESS PENDANT
Unique ID: NLM-858363
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Copper alloy suspension mount from a horse-harness pendant. Cast rectangular plate with projecting pair of hinge loops which retain the stub of a suspension loop of the pendant. The plate bears the relief motif of an Occitan or Toulouse Cross, as kindly identified by the finder, in a sunken circular field. This cross is equal-armed with a hollow centre and flaring arms (so a variant of a cross patty) with a pomette or pellet on each corner of the ends of its arms and at the mid points of the ends of the arms. There is also a field of cross-hatched grooves forming lozenges or checks in the space between the edge of the central round field and the outer edges of the pendant, and a drilled rivet hole of diameter 3.5mm in each of its corners. No colorant now remains. Height: 39.4mm, Width: 32.1mm, Thickness (plate): 2.3mm, Weight: 13.81g.
Square pendants from Norfolk, sometimes from more complex multiple arrangements, are dated to the later 12th and early 13th centuries (Ashley 2002, figs 8-9). The cross of Toulouse is associated with the South of France from the 12th century, with varied and debateable antecedents. The association of this object with another found nearby (NLM-859036) is possible.
Notes:
Arms: Toulouse (cross)
Class: heraldic
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1175
Date to: Circa AD 1225
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Height: 39.4 mm
Width: 32.1 mm
Thickness: 2.3 mm
Weight: 13.81 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 23rd November 2013
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM24853a
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Decoration style: Heraldic
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: West Lindsey (District)
To be known as: Scotton
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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