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HARNESS PENDANT
Unique ID: NARC-965B35
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A cast copper alloy medieval harness pendant. Its shape is of an equal-armed cross with a suspension element extending from the upper arm. Set at 90degrees from the pendant, the suspension element is15mm long and the hole is 3mm in diameter. A seperate decorative element is fitted through the centre of the cross via a rivet. This central element is circular, 8mm in diameter and 5mm deep. Four points are folded inwards to hold a possble glass or faience bead, approximately 50% of which is still present but very is degraded. The face of the cross has traces of gilding. The reverse is flat.
The pendant is in poor condition, with the egdes being damaged and the surface pitted through corrosion. The suspension loop is bent slightly.
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 1300
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 35 mm
Width: 21 mm
Thickness: 0.6 mm
Weight: 3.06 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Surface Treatment: Gilded
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Northamptonshire (County)
District: East Northamptonshire (District)
Parish or ward: Chelveston cum Caldecott (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SP9969
Four figure Latitude: 52.310197
Four figure longitude: -0.549281
1:25K map: SP9969
1:10K map: SP96NE
Grid reference source: Centred on village (which isn't a parish)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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