Record Details
| NHER Number: | 29424 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Medieval harness pendant and post medieval buckle |
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Summary
A late medieval harness pendant and a post medieval buckle have been found by metal detectorists.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 33 02 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG30SW |
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| Parish: | CARLETON ST PETER, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
January 1993. Metal detecting.
Lovely late medieval bronze harness pendant, gilded with quatrefoil-shaped frame and suspended within it a quatrefoil with a central stud (decorative). This would 'swing' within the frame. Frame has pierced lug at top for suspension.
Compare with examples in NCM and Musee de Cluny, Paris.
Identified by S.Margeson (NCM).
A.Rogerson (NLA), 1 February 1993.
March 2005. Metal detecting. Site extended.
Post medieval buckle.
See description with (S1) in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 5 April 2005.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- HARNESS (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- BUCKLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Photograph: I & RS. Digital finds image. |
Related records - none
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