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Description: | Medieval gilded cast copper alloy harness pendant with attachment plate. Made in two sections. The attachment plate consists of a sexfoil with central rivet hole (no rivet), then a rectangular sheet which is folded over and has a slot, forming a hinge to take the actual pendant. The pendant is secured through the loop at it's top by a copper alloy rod in the hinge. The pendant ends in another sexfoil, again with a central perforation. This lower sexfoil is damaged. The are some traces of gilding on the obverse of both plate and pendant. 13th or 14th century. Length c.45.2mm, width (top sexfoil) 12.22mm, width across hinge 10.00mm, width (bottom sexfoil) 12.26mm, thickness (across hinge) 6.8mm, weight 6.56g. A harness pendant with a similar folded over attachment plate is illustrated in Saunder & Saunders (1991) "Salisbury & South WIltshire Museum Medieval Catalogue; Part 1" p23, fig 4, no.23, dated to the 13th/14th century.
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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