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Description: | A complete, but slightly bent, copper-alloy shield shaped horse harness pendant. Measuring 39mm in total length and 24mm in width. The suspension loop is set at 90 degrees to the plane of the pendant, which dates this pendant ot the medieval period. The front face is decorated with Or a saltire engrailed gules. That is, a gold, gilt background, from which traces of the gilding can still be seen, with a saltire, which is an ordinary consisting of a cross placed diagonally on the shield, the saltire is engrailed, so is a line of partition composed of teeth which enter the field, and gules, that is in red enamel, again traces of which can still be seen. An identical shield shaped pendant with the same heraldic design has been dicovered in Postwick (SMR 31109) Norfolk, it is the heraldic design which was used by John Le Moigne of Suffolk, a Knight of the Shire, Hunts 1290, Cambs 1303, summoned against the Scots 1301, and died 1342 (Ashley 2002, p10, 51, fig 10, no 52).
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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