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HARNESS PENDANT
Unique ID: NLM-A1D7AE
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Copper alloy with enamel harness pendant. Cast heater shield shaped plate with a suspension loop at right angles to the display face. Red enamel survives extensively as a field against which a row of five trefoil figures appears along the tp of the shield, with a single large chevron dividing the remaining field into three further zones. Below or within the chevron are four figures resembling cross crosslets; an indistinct pair of features appears in each of the triangular fields above the chevron. These figures may all have been rendered in yellow/gold/or to appear against their coloured ground. Suggested date: Medieval, 1300-1400.
Kevin Woodward kindly comments as follows: 'I believe that the arms depicted on this harness pendent are for the de Kyme family who are well known in Lincolnshire. They are recorded on the Segar Roll of c1282 - see number 90 on this link http://wappenwiki.org/index.php/Segar%27s_Roll
The heraldic description will be 'Gules, a chevron between ten cross crosslets six and four Or'.
Height: 39.6mm, Width: 23.7mm, Thickness (plate): 2.8mm, Weight: 9.52gms.
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 1300
Date to: Circa AD 1400
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Height: 39.6 mm
Width: 23.7 mm
Thickness: 2.8 mm
Weight: 9.52 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 30th August 2014
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM26894a
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Decoration style: Heraldic
Completeness: Complete
Surface Treatment: Inlaid with enamel
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: East Lindsey (District)
To be known as: Burwell
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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