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Description: | Medieval cast copper alloy harness pendant. The pendant is a circular disk, decorated on one side only, with a transverse pierced lug extending from the top to make a susspension loop. The disk is 49.8mm in diameter and 1.2mm thick, the lug is 7.5mm long, 6.2mm wide and 3.3mm thick; it weighs 18.5 grams.
The front is decorated with three concentric circles; the outer and narrowest contains a row of circular indentations, come retaining traces of gilding; inside this is an inscription running around the disk and in the centre a lion's head. The lion has a simple face with nose, mouth and eyes and a nine pointed mane indicated by incised lines. Several points of the mane have smaller incised lines within them, radiating out from the head and indicating hair.
The inscription cannot be read clearly but starts with a cross pattee. It is is very neat black letter script.
Disk shaped non-heraldic horse harness pendants are though to be generally earlier than the shield shaped heraldic ones, dating from the 12th or 13th centuries but the use of Black letter script on this example suggests a 15th century date. | 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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