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HARNESS PENDANT

Unique ID: NMS-F42657

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

Fragment of a cast copper alloy harness pendant from Roman military equipment, irregular break where upper part missing, surviving lower part of pointed leaf-shape tapering to a knopped oval terminal projecting forwards from base. Body and knop hollowed on reverse with a projecting integral rivet (projects 5.5mm) at the junction between the two. Extant height 36mm. Extant width 28mm.Cf. Similar pendants in Oldenstein (1976), Tafels 29-30 and an example with a projecting rivet on the reverse in Nicolay (2007), pl.88, type A7, no.259.1. 2nd-3rd century.

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 100
Date to: Circa AD 300

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 36 mm
Width: 28 mm

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 11th January 2015 - Sunday 11th January 2015

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Other reference numbers

Other reference: KLMD012015

Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy
Completeness: Fragment

Spatial metadata

County or Unitary authority: Northamptonshire (County)
District: East Northamptonshire (District)
Parish or ward: Titchmarsh (Civil Parish)

Spatial coordinates

4 Figure: TL0377
Four figure Latitude: 52.38135886
Four figure longitude: -0.48818007
1:25K map: TL0377
1:10K map: TL07NW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Metal detector
General landuse: Cultivated land

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Recording Institution: NMS
Created: 9 years ago
Updated: 8 years ago

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