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HARNESS PENDANT
Unique ID: YORYM-97D988
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A cast copper alloy medieval harness pendant. The pendant is shield shaped with a central suspension loop at the top. One side of the shield is decorated with a heraldic style design using a coloured enamel field with raised devices. The enamel appears to have been blue, the raised design a bend cotised with 3 lions rampant on either side of the bend. It is probable that the design derives from the arms of the de Bohun family. The Bohuns were Earls of Hereford and major political figures and landowners in the 13th and 14th centuries. It is not necessarily the case that the pendant belonged to one of them personally, it probably showed ownership or allegiance.
Notes:
Arms: Bohun, de (probably)
Class: heraldic
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1300
Date to: Circa AD 1400
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 37.6 mm
Width: 24.6 mm
Thickness: 2.4 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 10th September 2004
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Surface Treatment: Inlaid with enamel
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: North Yorkshire (County)
District: Hambleton (District)
To be known as: Well
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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