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Description: | A copper-alloy pendant dating to the second or third centuries AD. The pendant comprises a crescental plate with circular knobbed terminals which are joined. The plate is hemispherical in section. A rectangular-section wire attachment loop extends from the pendant. It becomes circular in section and loops back on itself, before terminating in a flattened lug. The underside of the pendant is hollow and filled with a greyish-white concretion. It measures 39mm in length, a maximum of 21mm in width and 3mm in thickness. It weighs 2g.The pendant is very similar to one found in a barrack block at Caerleon (Chapman 2005, p. 152, no. Wf02) as well as examples from Maurik (Zadoks-Josephus Jitta and Witteveen 1977, 177, pl. 30, no. 3) and Vechten in the Netherlands (ibid, 179-80, no. 5) and from the German Limes (Oldenstein 1976, 162-4, Taf. 45, nos. 444 and 447). These parallels have been dated from around the mid second to the first half of the third century AD. Although often identified as harness pendants both Chapman (Chapman 2005, 152) and Bishop (Bishop 1992, 81-91) suggest that they were used as decorative amulets on military aprons.
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