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Description: | Cast copper-alloy mount, probably a suspension mount for a horse-harness pendant. In the centre is a 7 mm square block, and from this four D-section arms emerge. One is immediately broken off, and this probably ended in the hinge which held the pendant; the break is worn and corroded.
The other three arms are all identical. Each has a 7mm long D-sectioned area, then another 7 mm square block, then a narrow waist, and then a rounded lobe which is pierced to hold an iron rivet. Each arm then terminates in a long rounded knop. There are traces of gilding on one of the arms but otherwise the mount is a reddish-brown colour. The reverse is concave and undecorated.
The mount is medieval, and in common with similar pendant suspension mounts probably dates to the late 13th or early 14th century. There are similar, but simpler, cross-shaped mounts in Ashley 2002, no. 105 and Clark (ed) 1995, no. 75. | Subjects: | Pendant suspension mount | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Clifford, Trista - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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