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HARNESS MOUNT
Unique ID: WILT-69C326
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete medieval copper-alloy and gilt harness pendant suspension mount or hanger, dating to c AD1200 - 1400.
The suspension mount consists of a long bar, c.8.78mm wide and c 52.36mm in length, with end bosses, and a pair of pierced loops projecting from the centre to one side only (19.70mm wide here). There are signs of iron corrosion in the two piercings. The bar is D-shaped in cross-section The loops, 5.15mm long, would have held the axis bar for the pendant.
Beyond the end two bosses is a stylized fleur-de-lis terminal with a central piercing c.3.75mm in diameter. Rivets, c 9.20mm in length, are in place.There is a semi circumferential collar moulding inside each of the end bosses.
It weighs 10.37g.
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 1200
Date to: Circa AD 1400
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 52.36 mm
Width: 19.7 mm
Weight: 10.37 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SSWM 5121
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: Gilded
Spatial metadata
County or Unitary authority: Dorset (County)
District: East Dorset (District)
Parish or ward: Wimborne St. Giles (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU0118
Four figure Latitude: 50.96142355
Four figure longitude: -1.98713386
1:25K map: SU0118
1:10K map: SU01NW
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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