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Description: | A copper alloy shield shaped horse harness pendant from the medieval period. The pendant has a pointed base and curved sides with a flat top. It is 22.6mm long and 18.3mm wide. It is decorated with three lions passant guardant in yellow enamel on a red enamelled ground. These are the royal arms of Edward I (1272-1307) and Edward II (1307-1327), and may indicate that the owner was a loyal supporter of the king. A circular sectioned supension bar extends from the top of the shield in the centre topped by a broken ring at right angles to the shield. The suspension bar and ring are 8.8mm long and 4.2mm wide. The metal is dark brown in colour with a light green patina in patches, there is traces of gilding on the reverse. A similar heraldic horse harness pendant with the additional charge for the Prince of Wales can be seen in Cherry (1991) in Saunders (ed) Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum Medieval Catalogue Part 1, page 20, No.8, Fig 2; on the database is a similar but larger pendant to this example: SWYOR-D502D5. Harness pendants are generally dated from the twelfth to the fourteenth century, with enamelled and heraldic types predominating in the thirteenth and fourteenth centurys (Griffiths, 1995, ??The Medieval Horse and its Equipment??). | Subjects: | Heraldic | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Burnett, Laura - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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