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Description: | Gilded copper-alloy horse-harness pendant in the shape of a cross. Although now very worn and incomplete, it is possible to reconstruct the decoration quite fully. Each arm is of equal length, D-shaped in cross section and ends in an expanded rounded terminal. The terminals are decorated all over with small stamps; the shape of the stamps is unclear. In the centre is a circular lobe, pierced to take a large separate copper-alloy rivet. This is hammered down flat on the reverse, and projects on the front to a total length of 10 mm. It flares to a neatly rounded head. Around the rivet, on the circular lobe, are radiating curved grooves, also probably stamped. The uppermost arm of the cross ends in a broken suspension loop turned at right angles to the rest of the pendant; the break is old but the inner curve of the perforation can just be seen. The reverse is flat and undecorated. The purpose of the rivet is unclear; anything attached to the front by the rivet would obscure the decoration on the cross.
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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