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HARNESS PENDANT
Unique ID: LVPL-432FFC
Object type certainty: Probably
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A circular horse harness pendant, cast from copper alloy with an integral suspension loop, now no longer whole. The front surface os decorated with a sun-like design of six bifurcated curvilinear rays emanating outwards from a central concave circle, the centre if which is raised to a small nub. The entire surface of the object is covered in varying levels of verdigris. There appears to be small areas of a much more vibrant surface metal surviving on the front, though this could be the original colour of the copper alloy revealed by damage to the verdigris layer.
The back of the object is plain except for a small quadrilateral depression at roughly the centre of the body.
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 1399
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 26 mm
Width: 19 mm
Thickness: 4 mm
Weight: 5.7 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Decoration style: Curvilinear
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: North Kesteven (District)
To be known as: Scopwick
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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