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HARNESS PENDANT
Unique ID: LEIC-92A149
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Medieval copper alloy harness pendant, 29mm long, 15mm wide and 6mm thick with a weight of 3.30g.
The object is circular in form and rectangular in cross section and consists of a circular pendant with five small rectangular projections, the sixth one forms a suspension loop for an articulated sub rectangular belt fitting. This has a partial transverse loop attached to its upper edge and is plain. The pendant is decorated with wheel like spokes emerging from a central circular boss. each alternate triangular cell is decorated with red enamel, with possibly dark blue? in the others. The object has traces of tinning/silvering all over its surface..
Sub class: set
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: 29 mm
Width: 15 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight: 3.3 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Enamel
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: White metal coated
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Leicestershire (County)
District: Hinckley and Bosworth (District)
To be known as: Peckleton
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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