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Description: | a copper alloy medieval harness pendant. It is square (though bent out of shape probably through plough damage) with sides measuring 37.9mm in length and is thin, less than 1.5mm in thickness. It has a single loop in the centre of the upper edge, turned at right angles and extending for 10.75mm. The pendant has stamped and gilded decoration on the upper surface, producing an openwork pattern ressembling a six-petalled flower around a central circular perforation. There are plain circles visible in three of the four corners, about 8.3mm in diameter, and surrounding these and spreading along the edges of all four sides are traces of numerous stamped annulets. Gilding traces survive over most of the upper face. The pendant weighs 11.5g.Harness pendants of this type, which lack cast decoration and enamelling, are thought to date to the twelfth to thirteenth centuries. Examples from Norfolk showing zones of annulet decoration, and wing similar openwork are illustrated by Steven Ashley.
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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