The pendant featured the symbols of Tudor King Henry VIII and his first wife Catherine of Aragon.
One of these tests -- King doesn't offer more detail to avoid giving information that could allow people to create fraudulent objects -- dated the object to before 1530.
"This object has just come out of the ground almost as if it dropped out of the sky," King said. "We've got an opportunity to study an object that hasn't been subject to all of these sorting processes that people have historically taken .... we're getting something that is in a sense raw information."
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