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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy suspension mount probably for a medieval harness pendant. The mount has a large irregularly shaped plate with two incomplete projections from its lower edge which would have originally been bent backwards to form two loops through which a horizontal bar would have passed from which a pendant could have hung. The main plate is roughly lozenge shaped with the top and bottom edges expanded into triangular projections and the sides broken, the more complete side appears to have knops at the top and bottom corners. There are no attachment holes in the remaining section. The centre of the plate has been pushed outward slightly in a domed protrusion. The front is gilded and decorated with inscised lines outlining a central shape (the original form of which is now unclear due to the beaks each end) and the area outside this shape filled with punched annulets. It is 42.3mm long, 40.9mm wide, 3.8mm thick and weighs 9.00 grams. Harness pendants were popular in the 12th - 14th centurys. | 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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