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HARNESS PENDANT
Unique ID: SF9810
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Published 
A copper-alloy two-part horse harness pendant. The frame of the pendant is shaped like a circular six-petalled flower with an incomplete suspension loop turned through 90 degrees at the terminal of a rectangular bar which projects from the top edge of the frame. The frame is 42mm in length and 26mm in width. The inner pendant is a circular six petalled flower, each petal fitting inside a larger petal of the frame, it is 20mm in diameter and attached to the frame by a suspension loop, again turned through 90 degrees, and a bar, which passes between both parts of the pendant. In the centre of the inner pendant there is a circular boss 8mm in diameter which contains red enamel. Traces of gilding also survive on the front face of the pendant. The back face is flat and undecorated. This pendant is likely to be medieval in date.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Date from: AD 1066
Date to: AD 1540
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 42 mm
Width: 26 mm
Weight: 15.24 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 1st October 2002
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Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Cambridgeshire (County)
District: East Cambridgeshire (District)
To be known as: ISLEHAM
Spatial coordinates
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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