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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy harness mount of the type used to support a vertical post and revolving banner. It consists of a bar, flat and rectangular in shape, measuring 68mm in length and 8.4mm in width. One end of this bar seems to be incomplete due to old breaks; the other end has a semi-circular terminal with a transverse ridge across it. In the centre of the bar there is a swollen circular part with a central perforation which is now filled with corroded iron (the iron axis bar from the vertical post). Projecting from one face of the bar, near to either end of it, are two rectangular hollow projections, each measuring 21.17mm by 13.7mm externally and 14.3mm by 7.2mm internally; straps would have passed through these. There is more corroded iron, filling the space between these projections, again derived from the otherwise missing vertical post which would have carried the banner. Traces of gilding can be seen. Compare Ward Perkins 1940, 120-21, fig. 40, no. 2; Griffiths 1986, figs. 22 and 23. On the database, see WMID-792F75, SOM-278821, NCL-DCE051, IOW-C58611 and several from Norfolk, including NMS-7C7611, which retains a copper-alloy post to support a missing banner.Late 13th or 14th century.
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