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Description: | Probable horse-harness pendant with armorial decoration. The object is flat and is a slightly irregular quatrefoil or rounded square in shape, with projecting points between each foil. One face is decorated with a raised border and a raised central bird standing on two legs with displayed wings and a head turned to look to the right (as you look at it). The head has a dot eye and a hooked beak with an engraved line; the wings have engraved detail too. The whole object is very corroded but gilding survives on the head and neck. It is possible that the background was enamelled, but no evidence survives. There is no suspension loop, but instead in one corner there is a neatly drilled small circular hole, apparently original, between the border and the bird's beak. The lack of a suspension loop makes the identification as a harness pendant uncertain; there is no swelling on the pendant or other evidence that a loop has broken off.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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