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Description: | Horse-harness pendant, roughly heart-shaped but with a wide flat top with a probable fracture in the centre where a hook (or less probably a loop) has broken off. The pendant is very slightly convex, and after a rounded lobe on either side tapers in a convex curve to a hemispherical terminal with small knop beyond. Surviving length 34 mm, maximum width 27 mm. The exact use and date of these pendants is uncertain, but it is conjectured that they were used on legionary and auxiliary cavalry throughout the Roman period. Many are published in Oldenstein (1976) but none are particularly close parallels; see, for example, nos. 187, 190-5, 197-202.
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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