Rights Holder: Royal Institution of Cornwall
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Unique ID: CORN-D4F09A
Object type certainty: Certain
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Cast copper alloy horse harness pendant in the form of a quatrefoil frame surrounding a cruciform pendant. The cruciform has moulded grooves on all sides of the central square which holds a domed stud which is circular in plan (3 mm in diameter) and cylindrical in profile (6 mm long), but bent at the back. The crucifrom is held within the frame by a pin that crosses transversely through the arm of the pendant and the upper apex of the frame. The quatrefoil frame has a pointed knop between each arch, in each external angle. The frame terminates in a circular suspension loop that is still held to the hinge of a fragment of plate by a cylindrical copper alloy pin. The plate has a recessed triangle which is incomplete as it runs from the base of the plate to the broken edge. The plate or mount would have been riveted to a strap of the horse harness.
Read (2001) illustrates a similar hanging pendant on page 58, fig.37, no.470, which is dated from the 14th century.
Sub class: set
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1300
Date to: Circa AD 1400
Quantity: 1
Length: 46 mm
Width: 20 mm
Thickness: 3 mm
Weight: 8.97 g
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st March 2015 - Saturday 30th May 2015
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4 Figure: SW5840
Four figure Latitude: 50.21040947
Four figure longitude: -5.39315583
1:25K map: SW5840
1:10K map: SW50NE
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Read, B. | 2001 | Metal artefacts of antiquity: A catalogue of small finds from specific areas of the United Kingdom | Langport | Portcullis Publishing | 58, fig.37 | no.470 |