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SADDLE
Unique ID: CORN-CB35AC
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Cast copper alloy one-piece decorative saddle pommel. Only two thirds of the pommel remain as the area where the rivet holes would have been has been sheared off. There may have been two other wings at either side with rivet holes in them, but these have been broken off if they existed. There is also a rectangular section that has been torn off one edge. There are two bands of engraved linear decoration running along the length of the pommel at a diagonal from the pointed end of the pommel, where there is a protruding knop, to the engraved band crossing the width of the pommel at the opposite end, just before the rivet hole, and to the engraved border line at the base of the pommel.
The pommel would have been riveted onto a wooden protrusion on the front of the frame of the saddle, to which the reins could then be secured. Saddles were wooden-framed and leather-clad at this time in order to support a man in full armour.
Read (1988) illustrates a similar example on p.128, no.809, which he dates from the 16th to the 17th century.
Class: pommel
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Middle
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 51 mm
Height: 13.5 mm
Width: 29 mm
Thickness: 2 mm
Weight: 17.12 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 6th October 2016 - Thursday 6th October 2016
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: 2
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
District: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Perranzabuloe (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SW7856
Four figure Latitude: 50.36193398
Four figure longitude: -5.12269879
1:25K map: SW7856
1:10K map: SW76NE
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Read, B. | 1995 | History Beneath our Feet (1995) | Ipswich | Anglia Publishing | 128 | no.809 |
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