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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy harness pendant of medieval circa 12th-13th century in date, an example of non-armorial horse furniture. It is very similar to a complete example from South Creake, Norfolk (Ashley 2002, 5, fig 5, no 5).
The upper part of this pendant survives and the rest is missing due to an old break, now worn, the pendant is also bent out of its original shape. Despite this the pendant seems most likely to have been M-shaped in form when complete, it measures 43.14mm in width and 25.5mm in length. Its suspension loop is set at right angles to the plane of the pendant and has a small circular piercing through its centre. The upper surviving part of the pendant itself has shaped edges formed by evenly spaced V-shaped notches. One side of survives and is a curvilinear arm with a trefoil terminal end, this arm is now bent upwards over itself. The front face of the pendant is decorated with longitudinal decorative bands, each one consists of of two parallel longitudinal rows of opposing tiny zigzag indentations. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Minter, Faye - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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