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Description: | An artefact cast in copper alloy with traces of gilding: probably an incomplete medieval harness pendant suspension mount. It is of sub-rectangular form overall. The body is trapezoidal with a rounded protrusion at one end (the narrower), and a pronged terminal at the other. It is assumed that this latter is a protruding double-looped integral attachment which would the held the axis bar for a pendant. Above it a rivet survives in situ; there is a second rivet within the other terminal. Around both rivets' heads are traces of gilding, confirming that this face would have been the visible one. The prongs stand forward of the mount, again suggesting that they accommodated something like an axis bar. The artefact has corroded to a dull red-brown colour with areas of lighter corrosion product on both surfaces.
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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