Rights Holder: Birmingham Museums Trust
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Unique ID: WMID-9F4F15
Object type certainty: Certain
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A cast copper-alloy suspension mount for a medieval harness pendant. The mount is 'T' shaped, with a lateral arm at the top which has a sub-circular attachment lug at either end on the reverse. The bottom of the mount is split with a gap for suspension of a harness pendant which would have been suspended on two thin prongs which project into the gap. The mount measures 21.5 mm mm long, 18 mm wide, 5.1 mm thick and weighs 6.2 grams. It probably dates from the 13th to 14th centuries AD. A similar type of suspension mount is illustrated by Read in 'Metal Artefacts of Antiquity' (2001, Fig 35, no. 440).
Class: pendant suspension mount
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1200
Date to: Circa AD 1400
Quantity: 1
Length: 21.5 mm
Width: 18 mm
Thickness: 5.1 mm
Weight: 6.2 g
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 1st March 2010 - Wednesday 31st March 2010
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Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
4 Figure: SK0537
Four figure Latitude: 52.930383
Four figure longitude: -1.927064
1:25K map: SK0537
1:10K map: SK03NE
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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