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HARNESS PENDANT
Unique ID: SUSS-B98826
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Cast copper alloy cruciform hanger for a horse harness pendant. It measures 37.0mm long by 33.2mm wide and is 5.25mm thick. It weighs 6.3grams. The hanger has four arms in a cross shape. Three end in round rivet holes, two are complete and one broken; one of the complete holes still holds a rivet. The fourth arm ends in some form of suspension attachment, now broken. The front of the arms are moulded and the back plain. They riveted arms are shaped with a trapizoid section leading to a narrowed neck beyond which is a oval section containing the rivet hole topped by a large rounded knop. Such hangers were used on horse harness pendants fashionable from c.1150-1400 AD (Griffiths; 1986; pp.1). . A complete example with pendant can be see under SWYOR-0761F8 on the database.
Sub class: set
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1150
Date to: Circa AD 1400
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 37 mm
Width: 33.2 mm
Thickness: 5.25 mm
Weight: 6.3 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st March 2008
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: East Sussex (County)
District: Wealden (District)
To be known as: Laughton
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Griffiths, N. | 1986 | Horse Harness Pendants | Finds Research Group 700-1700 Datasheet 5 | 1 |
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