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Description: | A complete copper alloy lozenge-shaped heraldic pendant, 32mm by 32mm in size, with a suspension loop at 90 degrees to the plane of the pendant. The front face of this pendant is bearing a fess and a chevron below it, both inlaid with red enamel. Above the fess, on the right hand side, is another diagonal band of red enamel (parallel with the edge of the pendant) which may have been intended to represent half of a chevron; an incised central vertical line (trace of gilding beside it) divides this 'half chevron' from the upper left hand side of the lozenge which is eroded but bears a number of shallow depressions, - this side was presumably intended to represent a canton with something on it (?possibly ermine tails). This suggests that the blazon of the arms was [Or/argent] a fess between two chevrons gules, a canton [?ermine]. The arms could be those of the de Ilketshale family: Or a fess between two chevrons gules, a canton ermine (colours sometimes given in reverse: Gules a fess between two chevrons or, a canton ermine). This family of knights had lands in the Ilketshalls, near Bungay in N.E. Suffolk: Sir James de Ilketshale died c.1262; son Sir James died c.1312; son Sir James living 1316; sons Sir Robert (d. 1361) and Sir Philip.
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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