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HARNESS MOUNT
Unique ID: NMS-55AF9E
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Medieval gilt copper alloy bar-mount for the suspension of a harness pendant . There are two rivet holes, both with copper alloy rivet, and at one end a pair of pierced lugs containing the remains of the iron spindle which would have held the pendant. The other end is lobed, traces of tranverse mouldings. Normally such mounts are horizontal (e.g. N. Griffiths in Clark 1995, 69, fig. 52 nos. 73-4) or are cruciform (ibid. no. 75). This vertical mount is an interesting variant, see a similar example from Florden (NMS-DCFB77). Length 24mm. Width 7mm. 4.5mm thick at loops. 13th - 14th century.
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: 24 mm
Width: 7 mm
Thickness: 4.5 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 13th September 2018 - Wednesday 10th October 2018
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 30205
Other reference: AMD102018
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Iron
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Surface Treatment: Multiple
Spatial metadata
County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: South Norfolk (District)
Parish or ward: Ashwellthorpe and Fundenhall (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TM1696
Four figure Latitude: 52.51904875
Four figure longitude: 1.18221764
1:25K map: TM1696
1:10K map: TM19NE
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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