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HARNESS MOUNT

Unique ID: CORN-41BD2D

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

Cast copper alloy horse harness suspension mount, sqaure in plan, with separate extant rivets that are 3 mm in diameter and 7 mm long, but missing its pendant which would have been suspended between the two parallel loops that extend below the lower rivet. The suspension loops have apertures that are 1 mm in diameter. The front face of the square plate is decorated with a diamond-shaped raised border around a lion rampant facing left, possibly as a patriotic pseudo-heraldic device representing England, and in each angle a trefoil or fleur de lis. There does not appear to have been any enamelling present but the surface is very corroded so it may have all disappeared.

Read (2001) illustrates a similar suspension mount with a lion passant within a circle with a fleur de lis at each corner on page 51, fig.30, no.393, which is dated from c.1250-1300.

Class: pendant suspension mount

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Middle
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Middle
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1250
Date to: Circa AD 1300

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 26 mm
Width: 15 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight: 3.8 g

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Friday 2nd June 2017 - Friday 2nd June 2017

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete

Spatial metadata

Region: South West (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Dorset (County)
District: West Dorset (District)
Parish or ward: Powerstock (Civil Parish)

Spatial coordinates

4 Figure: SY5195
Four figure Latitude: 50.75251952
Four figure longitude: -2.69596809
1:25K map: SY5195
1:10K map: SY55SW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Metal detector
Discovery circumstances: Found on a Southern Detectorists rally near Powerstock, Dorset.
General landuse: Cultivated land

References cited

Author	Publication Year	Title	Publication Place	Publisher	Pages	Reference
Read, B.	2001	Metal artefacts of antiquity: A catalogue of small finds from specific areas of the United Kingdom	Langport	Portcullis Publishing	51, fig.30	no.393

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Created: 6 years ago
Updated: 6 years ago

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