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HARNESS MOUNT
Unique ID: LVPL-1C2922
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete copper-alloy harness fitting of medieval date. It is a suspension mount for a harness pendant and is T-shaped and triangular in cross-section. On the reverse of the mount are two integrally made circular rivets for attachment. The downward part of the T is also triangular in cross-section and divides into two lugs which would have help the pendant in place with an iron pin which is missing due to old breaks.
Class: pendant suspension mount
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1200
Date to: Circa AD 1400
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 19.91 mm
Width: 19.08 mm
Thickness: 3.04 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 1st August 2014
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Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Buckinghamshire (County)
District: Aylesbury Vale (District)
To be known as: Ivinghoe
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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