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Description: | An elaborate cast copper alloy harness pendant with some traces of enamelling and some gilding surviving.The front surface of the pendant has been cast to allow the enamel to infill the spaces. The pendant consists of a hexagonal plate of copper-alloy, with the suspension loop still attached. At the terminal of each of the main angles there is a projecting fleur de lis decoration (the suspension loop has also been made into a fleur-de-lis design, with the addition of two lobes either side of the loop). There are five projecting fleur-de-lis (six if you include the suspension loop). A raised rim runs around the outer edge of the pendants surface. Inside this there is a ring of raised continuous fleur de lis. Inside these there is another raised ring and inside the central ring there is a flower, with eight petals and a central pellet. The areas where the enamel should be are very corroded and the enamel has been replaces by soil and corrosion product. The reverse of the pendant is undecorated. But there is a ring of copper alloy on the bottom fleur de lis (on the reverse) which could be the remains of a rivet. The pendant is complete, but it is quite worn. The metal is a mid-brownish green colour.Very little is known about this type of harness pendant as relatively few have been found. They could be quite an early type or quite a late type. This type of pendant awaits further investigation.A parallel can be seen in Ashley (2000), P24, Fig. 23, No: 233. A similar harness pendant was been recorded in Firle (East Sussex) on to the PAS database, number SUSS-F5B487.
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