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HARNESS MOUNT
Unique ID: SWYOR-8518D6
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
A cast copper alloy junction loop from a harness mount of Early Roman date. It consists of a flat plate of sub-rectangular shape with rounded ends and a narrow waist, giving the appearance of linked circles. Between the two circles, a semicircular flange projects forwards. The edge of the flange is decorated with two narrow longitudinal grooves separated by a raised ridge.
At each end of the plate, an incised circle of metal almost the width of the plate has been ground away leaving a recessed circle filled with concentric scratches; each of these circles is then pierced centrally with a sub-circular hole.
The reverse of the flange (which is integrally moulded) is hollow and there are traces of ferrous corrosion in the base of the slot this creates. The underside of the rest of the artefact is otherwise flat except for a slight step along one edge, perhaps caused by a mis-aligned mould. There is no other decoration. The fragment has a smooth, dark green patina.
Compare WMID-36D4E1, Chapman, 2005, pg. 134-35, and Evans 2005, p136-7, Tf01 and the harness mount Tg14.
Find of note status
This is a find of note and has been designated: County / local importance
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: ROMAN
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Exactly AD 250
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 30.7 mm
Width: 13 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight: 5.91 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 7th February 2013 - Thursday 6th February 2014
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: PAS form number 2309
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Iron
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Wakefield (Metropolitan District)
District: Wakefield (Metropolitan District)
Parish or ward: Castleford Central and Glasshoughton (Metropolitan District Ward)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SE4625
Four figure Latitude: 53.7193904
Four figure longitude: -1.30441382
1:25K map: SE4625
1:10K map: SE42NE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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