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Description: | A circular gilt copper-alloy object with a hooked projection, probably a medieval horse-harness pendant. The plate is convex and is bordered by a flat strip with relief decoration on the obverse. On the central raised boss is a human or animal face with clearly discernible features including straight hair. The hook protruding from the object is directly aligned with this face. There are two drilled holes on the hollow hemisphere on its face, opposite the hook. The obverse has retained around half of its original gilding, while the reverse is undecorated, not gilded and quite corroded. This object was originally tentatively identified as an early Anglo-Saxon hooked tag. Steven Ashley (author of Ashley 2002) has suggested a re-identification as a horse-harness pendant. It can be paralleled by the certain horse-harness pendant HESH-B86641.
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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