Record ID: BH-56F575
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy harness mount dating to the Medieval period (c. AD 1200-1400). The harness mount is square shaped and rectangular in cross-section. There is a circular perforation through the plate in the centre of the upper and lower edges, and two rectangular, square-sectioned attachment lugs with rounded terminals projecting from the centre of the lower edge. Both lugs are pierced with a circular perforation towards the terminals where a suspension pendant would have hung. The front surface of the mount is decorated with a moulded crown surrounded by a circular area…
Created on: Friday 9th November 2018
Last updated: Friday 30th October 2020
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Record ID: NMS-55AF9E
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: 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.
Created on: Friday 9th November 2018
Last updated: Friday 30th October 2020
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Record ID: NMS-5578DE
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval gilt copper alloy openwork harness mount in the form of a sexfoil, the foils defined by radiating incised grooves and a central perforation. Pair of integral oval-sectioned attachment spikes on the reverse. Diameter 13mm. 1.2mm thick. 17th century.
Created on: Friday 9th November 2018
Last updated: Friday 9th November 2018
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