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Description: | Cast copper, probable, harness pendant. The pendant originally may have a sub '+' shape in plan, however only two arms remain. At the centre there is an undecorated low-relief sub-square platform from which the upper and left-hand arm protrudes. Both of these arms are integral to the central square. Each arm is semi-circular in section, has a waisted length before the terminal becomes bulbous, and the arm increases in width and depth at the terminal. The two missing arms leave broken edges, but these breaks are not too recent. Integral to the upper arms bulbous terminal is a incomplete lug, broken across a small hole. This break is also not too recent. The reverse of the pendant is flat and undecorated. The surface of the object has patches of a heavy brown/green patina, otherwise the surface is abraded. There is also a trace of a white metal alloy coating. It measures 18mm long, 14mm wide and 4mm thick. It weighs 2.9g.A similar example is in Ashley (Ashley, S 2002 Medieval Armorial Horse Furniture in Norfolk East Anglian Archaeology), No. 234 which is dated to the 12th to 13th centuries, and is classed as an elaborate pendant.
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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