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Description: | A fragment of a copper-alloy harness pendant suspension mount of late 12th- 13th century in date. This fragment is part of the lower edge of the pendant suspension mount, it has a central projecting rectangle of folded sheet copper-alloy, with a longitudinal rectangular slot cut through it. The back face of this sheet is now missing, it would have originally been folded back sharply and presumably soldered to the back face of the pendant suspension mount. Originally an iron horizontal bar would have run through the fold of this projection, from which the missing pendant would have hung, no trace of this bar now remains. The front face of the fragment is decorated and the incised lines representing two points of a star can be seen, there are tiny circular indentations arranged at random in the field behind these. The front face is also gilded. Similar more complete harness pendant suspension mounts have been discovered in Ubbeston, Suffolk, see SF-8CC388. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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