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Description: | A post-medieval cast silver pendant with large attachment ring and shield-shaped escutcheon. The escutcheon is engraved on one side with the Royal arms as used by Elizabeth I and on the other with the Tudor rose. There are signs of wear on one side of the ring from use. It measures 25.2mm long by 14.2mm wide and weighs 2.87g. This pendant is of an unusual form for either a harness ornament or a hawking ring. It has been suggested that it may be a vervel or small loop used in hawking to connect the leather jesses on a hawk's legs; items which often bear the engraved name if the owner in the 17th century and which are sometimes soldered with a shield with the owner's arms. However, the national collection of hawking vervels in the British Museum does not contain an example of this form and the identification of this piece remains uncertain. The Royal arms would suggest a date of mid 16th century to 1603.
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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