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HARNESS MOUNT
Unique ID: SF-AA0A54
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A complete enamelled and gilded copper alloy medieval heraldic harness mount. The mount is shield shaped (Ward Perkins Type I) with an integral rivet extending from the centre of the reverse. The outer face is decorated with a recessed two headed eagle, wings spread. The eagle is filled with traces of red enamel and the raised area surrounding has traces of gilding in places.
Harness pendants were in use from the twelfth to the fourteenth century, with enamelled and heraldic types like this one predominating in the late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries (Griffiths, 1995,62). This heraldic device is a common one and is also seen on a pendant illustrated by Ashley 2002, 15&40, fig.15, no.143).
Length: 19.4mm, width: 16.4mm, thickness: 2.6mm, thickness incl. rivet: 10.8mm, weight: 3.38g
Class:
heraldic
Sub class: stud
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1250
Date to: Circa AD 1400
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 19.4 mm
Width: 16.4 mm
Thickness: 2.6 mm
Weight: 3.38 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st April 2017
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Enamel
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: Suffolk Coastal (District)
To be known as: Sternfield
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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