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Description: | A copper alloy quatrefoil heraldic stud, 21mm in length and 20 mm in width, bearing a central lion passant (black metal) within a red enamelled square with narrow lozenge shaped projections (also with red enamel) at each corner, with fleur-like triple black metal projections on each side, set within a blue enamelled background. The black metal may be tarnished silver.
Harness pendants with very similar designs (either with rampant or passant lions set within squares or lozenges) have been recorded from various places in Norfolk (Beeston Regis, Binham (2), Congham, Fincham, Holme, Horning (2), Morton-on-the-Hill Reepham, Shouldham, Tuttington, and North Walsham - see S. Ashley, Medieval Armorial Horse Furniture in Norfolk, East Anglian Archaeology 101, 2002, nos. 203-5 and 208-13, where it is suggested that these are meant to represent the English royal arms - the lion rampant on a red background for England and the fleurs on a blue background for France). Curiously, some of the Norfolk examples also have silver lions and fleurs, rather than the gilded ones that would be expected from the royal arms. | Subjects: | Heraldic | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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