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HARNESS PENDANT
Unique ID: NLM-FFE8E1
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Copper alloy with enamel
Harness Pendant. Cast shield shaped pendant with an oval suspension loop at right angles to the display face. A well-preserved blazon depicts two lions or leopards passant left - probably originally the yellow colour of the metal (or) against a ground of red (gules) enamel; above the leopards a rectangular field of blue (azure) enamel bears an arrangement of paired horizontal and at least eleven vertical lines between them. The red enamel is revealed at one end of the upper motif, suggesting the application of the blue enamel over the red.
The gold leopards or lions are traditionally linked with the Arms of England, and more speculatively with royal service. The barred motif - which if heraldic rules were followed should be yellow or white (argent) against its blue ground - is less common, and has not been identified by cursory survey, though it is not a ladder, which would be depicted upright or aslant. Advice on this detail from a better informed researcher would be welcomed by this reporter. Suggested date: Medieval, 1250-1350.
Length: 40.1mm, Width: 23.6mm, Thickness (clear of loop): 3.2mm, Weight: 7.17gms.
Notes:
Arms: Uncertain.
Class: heraldic
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1250
Date to: Circa AD 1350
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 40.1 mm
Width: 23.6 mm
Thickness: 3.2 mm
Weight: 7.17 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 4th September 2011
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM18439
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Surface Treatment: Inlaid with enamel
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
District: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Roxby cum Risby
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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