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Description: | An unusually large harness pendant suspension mount, the tip of one terminal is missing due to an old break and one half is also bent. If unbent it would measure 116mm in length and it measures 9mm in width across horizontal bar and 20mm in width across the bar and integral projecting loops. The back face is flat and the front face has a central longitudinal ridge. At either end of the horizontal bar is a shaped terminal seperated from the bar by a double cusp. The complete shaped terminal is rectangular in shape with rounded corners. There is a central circular rivet hole through the centre of the shaped terminals and the centre of the horizontal bar. Below the central rivet hole are two parallel projecting loops, formed from two strips of integral copper-alloy sheet being folded backwards. Through the loops created there is a copper-alloy bar, from which the now missing harness pendant would have originally hung. Other smaller examples of harness pendant suspension mounts are known from London and are medieval and c14th century in date (Clark 1995, 69)
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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