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Description: | Copper alloy medieval flat decorative tri-lobed stud for attachment to a strap or harness and dating to the 13th - 15th century. The stud is a large trefoil shape with points between each lobe. The example has a heraldic shield in the centre with an enamelled red saltire as the central motif. The area around the shield on the three lobes is covered in detailed foliate decoration. The edges of the mount are slightly bevelled and have remains of gilding.Although the central Saltire showns remains of enamel, this was a common motif on medieval harness wear and therefore there are several possible owners of this arms. It is possible that the arms belong to the Neville family whose arms are best know as 'gule, a saltire argent' (red background with a silver saltire) although they were known to reverse this so that the background was silver and the saltire red. In the thirteenth century the Neville's had land inYorkshire and Lincolnshire. Another possibility is that the original arms belonged to William de Boyvill. His full arms are 'argent, three saltires gules' but pendants or studs often carried only one of several charges related to a particualr arms. On the reverse of the shield there is a large circular sectioned stud measuring approximately 11mm in length and 5.9mm in diameter. The stud measures 54.3mm in diameter and 13.8mm in thickness (including the stud). The mount weighs 32.9g
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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