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Description: | A cast copper alloy shield-shaped harness pendant. The suspension loop is intact, and the artefact is in fair condition. Some of the enamel survives on the face. The face has a background consisting of six vertical stripes, of which three are blue. Over this is a diagonal bar (a ??bend??), which seems to have been red. On the bend were three devices, which now cannot be identified. I. Szymanksi believes that the devices were birds, and has identified this as probably being the arms of the Savoyard knight Guillaume de Grandison, of Ashpereton, Herts (his arms had blue/silver stripes). This artefact dates to the 13th or 14th century. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | ANDREWS, Dominic - Illustrator | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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