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Description: | A worn medieval artefact cast in copper-alloy with a pendant suspension function - probably an incomplete unusual harness mount. The object is broadly rectangular, consisting of a long flat plate with wider rectangular terminal element. The terminal element features a circular protrusion in the same plane as the long bar perforated for mounting. At the lower edge of the terminal element is a suspension lug bent round on itself to hold an axis bar. Retained within a recess in the lug, looped around the axis bar, is the suspension loop of a now broken pendant. The terminal element is decorated on its upper surface with a moulded border within which a creature walking right within an oval border (a lion passant?). The long bar features an extant central rivet c. 8.7mm from the terminal element. It has been bent in a number of places, and also broken, the break fixed recently with glue. The broken end of the plate is slightly flared and flattened. As no direct parallel has been found a date consistent with medieval harness pendant suspension mounts has been offered.
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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