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HARNESS FITTING
Unique ID: NMS-1A4F43
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Incomplete post-medieval copper alloy harness fitting depicting a profile bust of the man-in-the-moon facing across an aperture towards a six-pointed star, with two integral round-sectioned attachment spikes on the reverse. A hook which would have engaged with a loop in a counterpart mount, is missing, see Read 2008, no. 805. The counterpart may have been NMS-81EC97, which was recovered from the same field. Extant width 34.2mm. Height 24.5mm. 17th century.
Field JO11
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1600
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Height: 24.5 mm
Width: 34.2 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 19th August 2016 - Thursday 27th October 2016
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 61738
Other reference: SET102016
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: Breckland (District)
Parish or ward: South Lopham (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TM0381
Four figure Latitude: 52.38937547
Four figure longitude: 0.98178427
1:25K map: TM0381
1:10K map: TM08SW
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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