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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy harness pendant. This object represents the suspension mount of the pendant, with the separate suspension fitting entirely missing. It is subrectangular in plan and triangular in section. The front is bevelled horizontally. From the middle of the main body of the mount is an integrally moulded cone shape, semicircular in plan (i.e. flat to the back), that begins from the bevel ridge and flares downwards. From the broad base of this cone is one surviving circular pin bar lug, with its opposite lug now entirely missing. The suspension fitting would have had a transverse suspension loop that would have fitted between. To the reverse of the mount are two integral lugs, circular in section. One is truncated and the other is broadly pointed. The object is plain. It is heavily abraded with a patchy light green and brown patina. All breaks are worn smooth and similarly patinated, suggesting they occurred in antiquity. The object is 20.02mm wide.16.58mm long to the bottom of the surviving pin bar lug, 3.3mm thick and weighs 4.29g. It is probably 14th century in date. A similar bevelled suspension mount, with its suspension fitting can be seen in Read, 2001, figure 35, number 440. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1300
1400 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Caroline McDonald | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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