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Description: | A copper alloy horse harness pendant from the medieval period. The pendant is formed from two pieces with a sexfoil lower part and long, thin lugs which are hinged at the top. It measures 28.4mm by 14.9mm and is 5.9mm thick. It weighs 4.28grams.
The frame of the pendant was probably originally sexfoil although it is now slightly damaged, it is a ring with two lugs projecting upwards to form the hinge. The two lugs are joined across the top by the suspension loop. This loop has an incomplete transverse circular hole, the top half of which has been lost to old damage.
The second piece of the pendant hangs in the frame from a single lug in the hinge. It is in the shape of a six petalled flower with slightly convex petals. There are traces of gilding on this part. The metal is dark brown in colour and corrosion has sealed the two pieces together.
Similar heraldic horse harness pendants can be seen in Cherry (1991) in Saunders (ed) Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum Medieval Catalogue Part 1. Harness pendants are generally dated from the twelfth to the fourteenth century, with circular and openwork examples predominating the twelfth century, more varied types in the thirteenth and fourteenth century including the enamelled and heraldic types more commonly (Griffiths, 1995, ??The Medieval Horse and its Equipment??). | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | WALKER, Liz - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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