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Description: | A copper-alloy horse harness pendant, probably dating to the medieval period. The pendant is quatrefoil in shape with four arms radiating from a central circular boss. Each of the arms is pierced with a circular hole, one of which is broken. Another has ferrous corrosion within it. The central boss is also perforated with four circular holes, between each of the four arms. The centre of the boss is decorated with a punched quatrefoil in relief which has a circle on each foil and in the centre. The four arms of the pendant are also decorated with punched circles. The reverse of the pendant is plain and undecorated, but has traces of copper corrosion, as does the obverse. A parallel has not yet been found for this pendant, but horse harness pendants are known in a variety of different forms throughout the medieval period. A precise date for this pendant is therefore not easily determined. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Brindle, Tom - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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