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Description: | Gilded copper-alloy suspension mount for a horse-harness pendant. The mount is now incomplete, but was originally rectangular with a raised frame around the edge. The single surviving complete edge has a central extension folded under to hold an axis bar, a fragment of which remains as a piece of corroded iron; a central slot was cut to accommodate the suspension loop of the pendant. The end of the folded-under projection has a broken hole which originally would have accommodated the end of a rivet; a corresponding hole is found in the rectangular plate.
Within the rectangular frame is a heraldic creature, probably a lion, passant, but the damage has removed the head and upper part, since the image is set the correct way up when the hinge is at the bottom (the photo was taken at ninety degrees to this, as it was originally thought to be a buckle plate). The image is not raised, but reserved within the surrounding field, which is recessed within the rectangular frame. The rivet hole is irregular, and is punched through the plate off-centre between the legs of the creature and roughly opposite the centre of the slot in the hinge.
The mount plate is now distorted, but measures 30mm lateral dimension (complete) and 18.5mm maximum in broken dimension, the hinge extending 12mm to the fold and 15.5mm wide. | Subjects: | pendant suspension mount | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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