Context (Display)
Previously mounted on patterned paper-wrapped display board with handwritten label in black ink reading: 'Roman. Boss (bronze). Cambridge, 1852 (?Deck Collection) Camb. Ant. Soc. 1883'. On the back attached type-written find label reading: 'Camb. Ant. Soc. Found at [handwritten in black ink: Cambridge]. From [crossed out and handwritten in black ink: 1852].
Event Date
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung

Description (Labels & Markings)
Two small handwritten paper labels on the back reading in black ink: 'Cambridge. 1852' and 'Cambridge'.
Event Date
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung

Context (Field collection)
Found at Cambridge 1852.
Event Date 1852
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Sun shaped boss with circular perforations top and bottom. Central motif is a figure mounted on a ?horse.
Event Date 17/8/2001
Author: maa

Context (Analysis)
On 20th February 2015 Dr Helen Geake remarked that some of this object may be a horse harness mount possibly dating to the 17th century. Both the name and period fields have been updated accordingly.
Event Date 25/2/2015
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Physical description)
Domed bridle boss of copper alloy with two rivet holes opposite each other and depicting a person on a horse in the domed centre which is surrounded by a rope decoration as well as sixteen triangular projections with dotted decoration. Worn surface.
Event Date 23/11/2023
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung