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HARNESS MOUNT
Unique ID: HAMP-A1807B
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A cast copper alloy Medieval heraldic stud. The plate is heater-shield shape, 15.8mm by 13.3mm, with a faint moulded device which may be described as three lions passant, with a label above. No traces of enamel or other coatings remain to confirm the tincture, however if the background were originally red (gules), the lions gilded (or) and the label picked out in blue enamel (azure) then these may relate to the arms of Edward of Caernarvon, Prince of Wales (later King Edward II), eldest son of King Edward I, who bore these arms ("Gules, three lions passant or, a label azure") in his father's lifetime, c.1301-1307 AD.
Notes:
See also LEIC-42AF16 and SF-431808.
Class:
Stud
Sub 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 1301
Date to: Circa AD 1307
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 20.8 mm
Height: 15.8 mm
Width: 13.3 mm
Weight: 4.86 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Hampshire (County)
District: Test Valley (District)
Parish or ward: Amport (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU2844
Four figure Latitude: 51.19453879
Four figure longitude: -1.60068092
1:25K map: SU2844
1:10K map: SU24SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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