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Description: | Copper alloy horse harness pendant. This pendant is drop shaped in plan, with the pointed end of the drop facing downwards. At the top, or broadly curved end, is a complete, transverse suspension loop that is 9.88mm in diameter and 6.48mm wide. The face of the drop shape is pierced with a central, circular hole that is 3mm in diameter. The pointed end of the drop extends into an elongated terminal. This portion of the pendant is moulded so that it begins with a raised globule between two raised bands, continues with a recessed, raised trapezoid, broad end down, and finishes with a raised conical shape. The pendant is flat, except for this extension which is semicircular in profile, i.e. flat to the rear and domed to the front. To the rear of the extension is an integral lug, which appears to have broken along its length, otherwise the reverse is plain. The patina of the object is mid green with patches of bright green. There are patches of silvering to the front and rear, noticeably below the suspension loop. The pendant is 56.66mm long, of which 19.8mm is the elongated terminal, 33.14mm wide at the widest point, 7mm wide across the elongated terminal and weighs 10.65g. This pendant dates to the 2nd or 3rd century AD. A similar, though plainer, example can be seen in Allason-Jones and Miket, 1983, number 3.661.
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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