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Description: | Pair of Medieval gilt horse harness pendants engaged with suspension mounts and swinging from copper alloy spindles. Almost all of one pendant is missing. The surviving pendant and both mounts are scallop shell-shaped, with radiating ribs represented by four engraved lines. The mounts have round sectioned integral attachment rivets on reverse and retain the spindles within folds split to take the pedants?? suspension loops. Overall height as hung 40mm (mounts 24mm, pendant 21mm). Mounts width 17mm. Pendant width 15mm. The scallop shell, the symbol of pilgrimage, appears on a number of pendants and mounts, some examples found in late 12th-century contexts (Ashley 2002, 26). | 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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