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HARNESS PENDANT
Unique ID: SF-951660
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
This example measures 33.65mm in length and 17.00mm in width. The suspension loop is set at right angles to the plane of the pendant. The pendant is oval in shape and has a quadruped animal looking backwards portrayed in side profile, which is reminescent in style to the backwards looking animals on late early medieval disc brooches. There is a border of open work holes around the animal. Projecting from the centre of the lower edge of the pendant there is a vertical short shaft, which has a bifurcated terminal.
Steven Ashley has suggested that both pendants seem to be in the style of 12th-century Romanesque art, providing a possible 12th-century date for them.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1100
Date to: Circa AD 1200
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 33.65 mm
Width: 17 mm
Weight: 6.22 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 1st January 2007
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Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: Suffolk Coastal (District)
To be known as: Charsfield
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
References cited
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