Record ID: NMS-64EEBE
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A set of three post-medieval gilt copper alloy mounts; two square (or lozengiform) examples, both with a pair of integral oval-sectioned attachment spikes at obliquely opposed anges on the reverse and a raised central boss with five stamped annulets and with a line of multiple stamped annulets on the surruonding flange. Both 15 x 15mm. Weight (one with inturned spikes) 2.45g and 2.24g (with stumps of missing spikes); The third mount has a central boss which matches the two mounts, and one surviving of two opposed arms.The surviving arm, a pointed oval tapering to a …
Created on: Thursday 17th November 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 13th 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-28CA97
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete and distorted medieval gilt copper alloy stud or mount, probably from harness. The flat face is decorated with a plain border, within which, reserved on the remains of a field of decayed greenish enamel, is a central quatrefoil set within four elaborate foils. Specks of guilding survive on the face. The reverse has a central integral sub-circular-sectioned rivet with pointed terminal. Diameter c. 36mm. Length/thickness, including rivet, 11mm (rivet only 9.7mm). Weighs 6.67g. c.1250 - 1400.
Created on: Thursday 28th July 2022
Last updated: Monday 15th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-498BBA
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy cruciform harness mount for the suspension of a pendant. Three arms end in lobed terminals next to rivet holes, at the junction of the arms is a rectangular panel from the base of which springs a slotted projection, folded onto the reverse to form suspension loops for the missing pendant, with its terminal secured by an integral rivet on the reverse of the mount. A larger version of an example from London (N. Griffiths in Clark 1995, 69, no. 75). Width 66mm. Height 49mm. Thickness 4mm. Weight 14.98g. Later 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Monday 30th May 2022
Last updated: Thursday 16th June 2022
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Record ID: NMS-93A1CB
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy horse harness suspension mount for a (missing) pendant, cruciform with an integral rivet on the reverse of the upper and side arms, the lower arm is bifurcated and transversely pierced to form two loops containing the corroded remains of an iron pin. The arms are trangular-sectioned with a lengthwise longitudinal arris on the face of each. Traces of tinning survive on the face. Height 38mm. Width 32mm. 4-6mm thick. Weighs 17.20g. 12th-13th century.
Created on: Wednesday 27th April 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 4th May 2022
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Record ID: NMS-EB5F76
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval Horse harness pendant suspension mount, circular, worn, bent and broken, with two opposed pierced lobes (one broken across perforation) for attachment and the broken stump of suspension-loops for pendant originally formed by a slotted lug folded onto reverse, hollow-backed central boss with six radiating incised lines between six foils to form a sexfoil. Extant width 42mm. Extant height 27.5mm. Weighs 3.40g. 12th-early 13th century.
Created on: Tuesday 19th April 2022
Last updated: Monday 9th May 2022
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Record ID: NMS-00F10D
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval gilt copper alloy sexfoil stud from harness (diameter 37mm, weighs 9.00 g), worn, corroded and bent, some gilding survives, mostly in the radiating grooves dividing the foils. There is a short integral shank for attachment on the reverse (length 9mm). 12th-13th century.
Created on: Thursday 13th January 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 19th January 2022
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Record ID: NMS-001D36
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval enamelled copper alloy elaborate armorial quatrefoil stud (34 x 34mm, weighs 11.18g) from harness, worn and corroded, and now missing the surface treatment of the metal (tinning or gilding). There is a short integral spike for attachment on the reverse (length 8mm). Although damaged, much of the enamelled decoration survives. Blazon: Azure three bends ?Or/?Argent on a chief Gules three fleurs-de-lis ?Or/?Argent. The arms have not been identified, they are not listed in DBA (Woodcock, Grant and Graham 1996). 14th-15th century.
Created on: Thursday 13th January 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 19th January 2022
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Record ID: NMS-8B31BB
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Worn and decayed fragment of a circular medieval gilt copper alloy repousse stud or mount, probably from harness. Less than a quarter of the face survives, with a central boss and one surviving tapering vertical arm of a probable cross. The broken upper end has a small scrolled element, perhaps part of a fleur-de-lis or floriate terminal. A probable bird, close to dexter, occupies the extant quadrant of the disc, on the remains of a field of (now) whitish decayed enamel. The reverse has a short central integral circular-sectioned rivet (possibly worn and broken stump). Diameter c. 45m…
Created on: Tuesday 15th June 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 13th July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-6B0EAE
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy harness mount, corroded purplish metal, hollow-backed lozengiform body with openwork fleur-de-lis at both ends. Two broken integral flat-sectioned attachment spikes on the reverse. Length 53mm. Width 16.5mm.17th century
Created on: Tuesday 19th January 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 19th January 2021
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Record ID: NMS-3CBCC6
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval gilt copper alloy rectangular harness mount. There is a single tapering integral shank on the reverse, offset from the mid-point. Cast, molded relief decoration comprises a cross on saltire. The face is worn with gilding extant in the lower parts of the front face, and one corner is missing. Height 12.5mm. Width 13mm. Length 10mm. Late 12th - mid 13th century.
Created on: Monday 24th February 2020
Last updated: Sunday 10th September 2023
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Record ID: NMS-EFFAA1
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete, corroded and bent Medieval gilt copper alloy horse harness suspension mount for a harness pendant. The mount is elongated sub-triangular or shield-shaped with remains of two flanking double-perforated lugs, a rectangular slotted strip springs from the foot of the mount and is bent onto the reverse to form twin suspension-loops for the missing pendant. There is an oblique bend across the face of the mount which bears a heater-shaped shield with traces of gilding and red enamelling. Blazon: Gules a lion rampant to sinister Or (on a shield set within an incised bordering line…
Created on: Monday 27th January 2020
Last updated: Friday 20th May 2022
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Record ID: NMS-84123C
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment (18 x 17.5mm, 2mm thick) of post-medieval umbonate bridle boss, cast, part of a flat-backed openwork flange comprising a trefoil with parts of flanking scrolls. Cf. Read (1988), 149-50, nos.1008-1021. 17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 29th October 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 29th October 2019
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Record ID: NMS-59E1D2
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete post-medieval copper alloy harness mount, heart-shaped, convex hollow-backed, openwork fleur-de-lis at pointed end, stumps of two integral spikes on reverse. Length 37mm. Width 21.5mm. 17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 15th October 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 15th October 2019
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Record ID: NMS-35A7C1
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval gilt copper alloy horse harness suspension mount: vertical bar with twin suspension loops at base and two rivet holes (rivets missing). D-section bar with terminal lobe at apex and opposed cusps next to uppermost rivet hole. Height 40mm. Width of bar 10mm. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Tuesday 1st October 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 1st October 2019
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Record ID: NMS-196DFD
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman cast copper alloy military harness mount, circular with hollow-backed central boss with concentric stepped mouldings. The outer flange has an engraved bordering line interrupted by three rivet-holes, two with copper alloy rivets with flattened heads and with the reverse obscured by iron corrosion. Small notch in outer edge where damaged. Cf. smaller, related types in Oldenstein 1976, Taf. 49 (most with integral rivets) . Diameter 54mm. Height of boss 20mm. Weighs 32.46g. 2nd - 3rd century.
Created on: Wednesday 31st July 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 13th May 2020
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Record ID: NMS-37818B
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
3 post-medieval copper alloy harness mounts: sub-rectangular bar with double-concave sides and a pair of integral round-sectioned attachment spikes at ends on the reverse, 6.5 x 21mm; openwork cruciform with scrolling C-shapes forming the sides and pellets in centre and at terminals, integral spike on reverse, 19 x 22mm; domed elaborate quatrefoil with square pyramidal boss and integral spike on hollow reverse, 29 x 29mm. None is parallelled in Read 2016. 17th century.
Created on: Friday 14th June 2019
Last updated: Friday 3rd April 2020
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Record ID: NMS-E37BED
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy harness mount, convex face, cast in the form of an elaborate spur rowel with sixteen alternately long and short points. Stumps of four flat-sectioned attachment spikes on the concave reverse. Diameter c.55mm. 3mm thick. Cf. an example from North Walsham (NMS-031301). 17th century.
Created on: Monday 10th June 2019
Last updated: Monday 10th June 2019
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Record ID: NMS-589601
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Worn and corroded fragment of a probable medieval copper alloy bar mount from harness, stump of hollow-backed D-sectioned bar with collared openwork fleur-de-lis terminal, the outer end broken across a rivet-hole. Extant length 34mm. Width 19mm. 3.5mm thick. 13th-14th century.
Created on: Friday 10th May 2019
Last updated: Thursday 26th March 2020
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