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Description: | Medieval Gilt harness mount with two rivet holes, one with rivet. At one end a rounded lobe and a narrow transverse rib next to a rivet, at the other a rectangular boss cut by a rivet hole next to a key-hole shaped loop, now broken. The centre widens into a cross fleury inlaid with red enamel. It is likely that this is part of a clasp and that the loop is an ??eye?? into which a ??hook?? or plate of a counterpart mount would have fitted. If this had functioned as a suspension unit for a pendant, it would have been in the same plane as, rather than at right angles to, the pendant, a most unusual arrangement. Length 45.5mm. Maximum width 13.5mm. Rivet holes centre to centre 27mm. 14th century. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Bales, Ellen - Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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