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Description: | Shield-shaped copper-alloy horse-harness pendant with a broken suspension loop. The surface of the metal has been eaten away by corrosion, leaving the inlaid blue enamel proud of the surface. The arms are those of the de Bohun family, earls of Hertford, Essex and Northampton: azure, a bend between two cotises and six lions rampant or (I.e. a blue background with a diagonal gold line between two smaller parallel lines, with three rampant lions to either side). The lions are reversed by mistake so that they face to the right (as you look at the pendant) rather than the left. The de Bohun arms are fairly common on heraldic objects in the Essex/Suffolk area - in Suffolk, they are known from Great Wratting, Barking, Great Thurlow, Debenham, Bramford and Bury St Edmunds.
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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