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Description: | A shield shaped medieval copper alloy harness pendant with traces of green enamel. Each of the three corners of the shield has a bar projecting from it terminating in a ring. The rings lie on the same plane as the shield with the central holes of all three running transverse to the pendant. The shield is decorated with 5 diagonal bars and 6 grooves of equal width. In some of the grooves there are remnants of green enamel. Heraldic description: bendy of eleven or and vert. The entire pendent is 62.3mm long, 38.4mm wide, 3.7mm thick and weighs 16.6g. This is a heraldic harness pendant of Medieval date. An exact parallel for the arms has not yet been identified, probably belonging in the 13th-14th centuries AD.
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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