Record ID: DUR-5AE48F
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy lunate harness mount dating from the Roman period (AD43-200). The object is lunate or crescent shaped with the main body in the form of curving folds, tapering from the centre to join at the terminals where there is a swirl inwards at both ends. At the left there appears to be an open (possibly broken?) loop; this terminal is also a little higher. The reverse is concave. There is an attachment stud at the base of the curve with a large almost flat top. The patina of the metal is of a dark green to grey colouring with some lighter patches.  Dimension…
Created on: Monday 4th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 8th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-394490
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy military harness mount, with a round, slightly distorted, head of concavo-convex cross-section and a single integral disc-headed rivet. Nicolay 2007, Type B1, similar to pl. 70, nos, 211.67 and 288.37. Weight 18.00g. Length 19mm. Head diameter c.24mm. Disc head diameter 15.6 - 16mm. AD c.120 - c.300.
Created on: Thursday 4th May 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 16th August 2023
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Record ID: GLO-31075D
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy white metal coated horse harness mount that is circular in shape with a dished face and bevelled outed rim. There is a circular perforation in the centre of the mount for a rivet; this is immediately surrounded by a ring border, followed by four radiating lines that have expanded pellet terminals. A second ring runs around the mid-section of the plate from which emanates three radiating lines that extend to the edge of the plate. The face is coated in a white metal with each of the engraved lines remaining free of any coating. On the reverse are two parallel and integr…
Created on: Thursday 16th March 2023
Last updated: Monday 20th March 2023
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Record ID: NMS-B7580E
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Roman copper alloy openwork military harness mount with one disc-ended integral round-sectioned rivet on the reverse. The form of the complete object is uncertain but it would probably have been symmetrical. Trumpet derived motifs suggest it would have been close to some examples with zoomorphic and foliar decoration on Nicolay 2007, pl. 75. There are three non-recent breaks. Extant length 18.6mm. Thickness at rivet 7mm. Thickness without rivet 1.6mm. Weight 1.92g. AD c.120 - c.300.
Created on: Saturday 3rd December 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 8th February 2023
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Record ID: KENT-606B1A
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy harness mount of Roman date (c. AD 12-120). Description: The object remains as part of the flat plate with circular, dished terminal. The plate is waisted in two areas, between which are three raised transverse ridges. At one end, the plate ends in a transverse break and at the other, a bowl-shaped terminal, perforated at the centre projects.  Measurements:  length: 45.10mm, width: 19.43mm, waist width: 11.47mm, diameter: 18.08mm, weight: 9.81g. Discussion: The object holds similarities with decorative horse gear fittings illustrated in…
Created on: Tuesday 29th November 2022
Last updated: Thursday 1st December 2022
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Record ID: NMS-CE324A
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy harness mount, cast pelta-shaped body, with the base curling round on both sides towards the splayed central projection, which is bent and damaged (notch in one side). Twin vertically aligned integral rivets (projecting 2mm and 3mm) with bent and slightly burred-over terminals on the reverse. Length 20.2mm. Width 20.5mm. Weighs 2.78g. For a similar example Cf. Oldenstein 1976, Tafel 53, nos. 622-6. 2nd-3rd century..
Created on: Thursday 10th November 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 29th November 2022
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Record ID: NMS-FB6D2B
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy military vulvate harness mount, sub-oval/sub-rectangular plate with stumps of broken perforated lug projecting from one end and vertical groove in a hollow-backed raised central oval, two integral disc-headed rivets on reverse (length 5mm). Extant length 37mm. Width 16mm. Plate 2mm thick, 7mm at raised central oval. Weighs 9.24g, Cf. examples with a lug projecting from the long side from Burgh with Tuttingham (NMS-128B64) and Sporle with Palgrave (NMS-735E56), and others without lug in Allason-Jones and Miket (1984), nos.3.870-1 and Bishop (1996), fig.38, n…
Created on: Monday 31st October 2022
Last updated: Thursday 2nd February 2023
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Record ID: NMS-308FA8
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Roman vulvate or coffee-bean mount. It consists of an oval-shaped plate with erosion damage to its edges, and a central raised oval boss which is decorated with a v-shaped groove running longitudinally down its centre. These grooved raised bosses are typically interpreted as stylised vulvae. In the centre of the reverse there is a concave depression that contours the back of the boss, at either end of which an integral perpendicular incomplete rivet projects. The surface of the metal is green with mottled corrosion. Mounts of th…
Created on: Sunday 9th October 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 11th October 2022
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Record ID: BH-053BBC
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman cast copper-alloy harness mount, probably of the third century AD. The mount is circular in shape and of openwork design. The outer ring is sub-D-shape in cross-section with a gently bevelled face either side of a rounded apex ridge. The ring is relatively even in form, measuring between 9.3mm and 9.5mm in width and 3.3mm and 3.6mm in thickness, with rounded inner and outer edges. The front surface is decorated with three equally spaced circumferential grooves; a central one on the rounded ridge, and one either side in the centre of each bevelled face. Four equal…
Created on: Wednesday 8th June 2022
Last updated: Monday 1st August 2022
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Record ID: LANCUM-8FFDAA
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy military harness mount. It is rectangular in plan, with a disc-headed shank on the hollow reverse. The outer face is decorated with two broad moulded ribs and a narrower central rib. It is a Type B6 (Nicolay 2007). Dates to between c120 and c300 AD. Length 20mm, width 18mm, thickness 10mm, and weight 9.14g. Similar examples on the database include BH-B17D02, NMS-C1F585, and LIN-A9C66E.
Created on: Wednesday 27th April 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 27th April 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Carnforth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-304D65
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman military copper alloy military harness mount, rectangular with an integral rivet and disc head or rove on the reverse. On the front face four moulded ribs run across the short axis. No close parallel has been noted, though Nicolay gave one example of his type B6 on which four ribs run along the long axis (2007, pl. 73, no. 178.1). Weight 5.7g. 17 x 12.8mm. Thickness 2.8mm, thickness including rivet 11.5mm. c.120 - c.300.
Created on: Sunday 10th April 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd May 2022
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Record ID: GLO-DE2A67
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy roman harness fitting that has a narrow oval frame that would have had a trefoil at either end, but one is missing, the remaining terminal has a ring-and-dot decorating in each of the three arms. The oval plate is formed from a convex vasica shape with a concave reverse surrounded by a flat, flanged border. On the reverse are two rearward facing rectangular loops mounted to either side of the plate (21mm long, 6mm high).
Created on: Thursday 30th December 2021
Last updated: Thursday 30th December 2021
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Record ID: LEIC-02FDCC
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Roman copper-alloy harness mount, dating to c. AD 43 - 100. The mount is circular in plan and slightly D-shaped in section. The front of the mount has a dished face and bevelled undecorated outed rim. There is a circular perforation in the centre of the mount for a rivet; this is surrounded by six radiating lines that run to the lip of the dish. The lines alternate between a single thin line and a band of thin lines with expanded terminals. The reverse has retained one rectangular loop at one edge, either side of the complete loop are two rectangular sectioned lugs, opposite the loo…
Created on: Wednesday 20th October 2021
Last updated: Thursday 11th November 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ratcliffe on Soar', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-447605
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman military copper alloy strap mount with a distorted rectangular loop with a pointed oval top side, almost flat but with a median arris. This oval shape is shared by a far from flat example from Frisia (Nicolay 2007, Pl. 83 no.150.4), while the flatness is shared by ibid. Pl.84 no.242.26. Length 18mm. Height 12mm. Mid 1st - 3rd century.
Created on: Sunday 18th July 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 18th August 2021
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Record ID: NMS-73D4E1
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy military harness mount, heart-shaped with a median arris and rounded convex-fronted lobe at the base. An integral attachment shank rises from the centre of the concave reverse. It is round in cross-section and T-shaped. Nicolay 2007, Type B19, and very similar to pl.80, no. 100.37. An example from Suffolk (SF-D5BB0B) is quite similar though there is a central projection at the top rather than a V-shaped notch. Weight 2.02g. Height 19.9mm. Width 13.8mm. The length of the shank suggests that the thickness of leather through which it passed was c.5mm. c.125 - c.300.
Created on: Thursday 8th July 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 18th August 2021
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Record ID: BH-59AF9D
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy Roman military harness mount dating to the period c. AD 150-300. The mount consists of a disc that is D-shape in cross-section with two back-to-back openwork crescents that combine into a larger dual pelta form. The outer edge of one of the crescents is broken. The underside of the mount is slightly hollowed and projecting from the centre is a single circualr-sectioned copper-alloy rivet with a flat disc-shaped head. The patina of the metal is mottled light and dark green with occasional patches of mid brown. The mount mesaures 16.89mm diamete…
Created on: Wednesday 7th July 2021
Last updated: Thursday 8th July 2021
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Record ID: BH-D5D1FB
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Roman cast copper-alloy 'vulvate' or 'coffee bean' stud dating to the 2nd or 3rd century AD. The stud possesses a broadly hexagonal plate that is slightly convex in profile. In the centre is a raised oval boss decorated with a shallow groove. The underside of the plate is flat and undecorated with an oval-shaped recess at the centre. Either end of this are circular-sectioned attachment lugs with flat worn terminals. The patina on the surfaces is mottled mid and light green in colour with delaminated areas being reddish-brown. The stud measures 21.58mm in length, h…
Created on: Wednesday 7th April 2021
Last updated: Friday 23rd April 2021
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Record ID: NMS-F1A6D1
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Roman copper alloy military harness mount, flat with, on the reverse, an integral rivet which terminates in a disc (or integral rove). Part of a curving edge and parts of two more tightly curving edges suggest that the object was probably pelta-shaped, cf. Oldenstein 1976, Taf. 53 and Nicolay 2007, Type B9, a common form e.g. BH-1CF9AF, HAMP-F88A28, SF-78C90A, NMS-DDAD0C, NMS-6AAA07, NMS-987D90, NMS-B56E4C and NMS-DB8F65. Extant width 24.8. Diameter of disc 5mm. Thickness 7.8mm. Thickness without rivet 2mm. Weight 5.94g. AD c.120 - c.300.
Created on: Saturday 26th September 2020
Last updated: Monday 5th July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-23920E
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Roman copper alloy military harness or strap mount, part of a bar with convex top and concave underside narrowing past an integral round-sectioned and disc-headed rivet to what was probably a rounded terminal. The front is decorated with a pair of transverse grooves. Broadly comparable objects include SF-0B3C7E which is decorated with transverse ribs, SF-4981B4 with a D-shaped cross-section, and BM-C4FD58 which is much narrower. Weight 1.03g. Extant length 13.5mm. Width 9.5mm. Length of rivet 6mm. Early 2nd - 3rd century.
Created on: Wednesday 18th March 2020
Last updated: Friday 28th August 2020
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Record ID: PUBLIC-7E214E
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possible copper alloy harness mount in the form of an isoceles triangle. It has a pattern of regular horizontal lines running parallelto the shortest side. The reverse has three fixing hooks, one of which is complete. Possibly Romano-Celtic giving it a date range of ca. 85 BC to 120 AD, although these are known from later periods. Dimensions: 38mm long and 28mm wide, 10.4g in weight
Created on: Tuesday 10th September 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 17th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Harrogate', grid reference and parish protected.