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Description: | A harness pendant and mount both made from copper alloy. The pendant is shield shaped, 35.5mm long and 19mm wide, with a raised rim and is decorated with a row of five vertical elongated lozenges across the centre. There are traces of gilt. There is a projecting suspension loop at the top which is broken. The pendant and loop are bent into a slight S-shape in section. The pendant is 2.6mm thick and the loop is 6.7mm thick. There are no markings on the reverse and the overall condition is quite good. The shape of the pendant suggests it is 14th century in date (Griffiths 1986).
The rectangular mount has a narrowed knop at each end and is 36.9mm long. There are the remains of 1 iron rivet near each end. The back of the bar is slightly concave. 2 lugs project downwards to form a hinge with a copper alloy pin running between them. This would have run through the loop on the pendant. The lugs were formed by creating an elongated U shaped loop and then bending it up and backwards round the pin, forming a hook. The mount is 8.1mm wide, with the lugs projecting by 8.8mm. The mount is 3.8mm thick, measuring 6.7mm thick at the lugs. There are traces of gilt surviving.
Positioned together the pendant and mount are 47.2mm long and the coupling is 7mm thick.The metal of both the pendant and the mount is mostly grey in colour with areas which are brown, traces of gilt and patches of uneven green corrosion. Similar heraldic horse harness pendants can be seen in Cherry (1991 in Saunders, ed.). Harness pendants like this are medieval in date, and are usually attributed to the 14th century. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Cooper, Amy - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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