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HARNESS MOUNT
Unique ID: SUSS-1253FB
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete, gilded, copper alloy, Medieval, suspension mount, for a harness pendant, AD.1350-1400. The object comprises a long decorated strip of copper alloy, with a broken suspension loop projecting from the mid point. The terminals are rounded , one retaining a foliate projection outwards, the other terminal has had its foliate folded backwards. The terminals are pierced to allow for rivets that are now missing. Moving in from the terminals there is a narrow waist and then a decorated square, followed by a longer narrowed section and a central decorated square from which the suspension loop projects. A not dissimilar example can be found in Clarke et al 1995, pg.69, fig 52, no.73 dated AD.1350-1400. The surface of the object is heavily corroded and only traces of the gilding remains, the decoration has been worn away almost completely but seems to have been incised tranverse lines and hatching. The reverse of the object is undecorated.
Length: 65.88mm
Width: 9.91mm
Thickness: 3.24mm
Weight: 9.44g
Class: pendant suspension mount
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1350
Date to: Circa AD 1400
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 65.88 mm
Width: 9.91 mm
Thickness: 3.24 mm
Weight: 9.44 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: Gilded
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: West Sussex (County)
District: Arun (District)
Parish or ward: Yapton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU9702
Four figure Latitude: 50.8094421
Four figure longitude: -0.62464788
1:25K map: SU9702
1:10K map: SU90SE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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