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HARNESS MOUNT
Unique ID: WAW-97D103
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
Mount for suspending a pendant from harness. Made from sheet copper alloy, gilded on its face. At one end of the mount is an oval panel on the underside of which is a pin by which the mount was secured. From the oval panel extends a tongue-shaped strip of metal, expanding slightly to where it has been folded back to form two loops, These are separated by an oval cut out of the strip. In the loops are traces of a round sectioned, copper alloy pin.
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 1175
Date to: Circa AD 1400
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 25.9 mm
Width: 12.9 mm
Thickness: 7.9 mm
Weight: 3.21 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 30th March 2008
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: Gilded
Spatial metadata
Region: West Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Warwickshire (County)
District: Stratford-on-Avon (District)
Parish or ward: Binton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SP1453
Four figure Latitude: 52.175083
Four figure longitude: -1.796692
1:25K map: SP1453
1:10K map: SP15SW
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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