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Description: | Medieval copper alloy horse harness mount, shield-shaped with an oblique bend, very worn and corroded, enamel and surface treatment of metal missing. Blazon: [Azure] a bend cotised between six lions rampant [Or]. 56 x (unbent) 69mm. 14th century.
The arms are those of de BOHUN, Earls of Hereford and Essex. The family traces its descent from Humphrey de Bohun who held only one manor in all England in 1086, Tatterford in the hundred of Brothercross, Norfolk (Blake 1952, 250 and Brown 1984, entry no.40). Although later rising to prominence and vastly increasing their holdings elsewhere, the de Bohuns failed to add to their sole lordship in Norfolk (Blomefield 1805-10), and the relative frequency with which their arms occur here must be attributed to their national rather than local importance. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Robbins, Katherine - Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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