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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy quatrefoil harness pendant. The pendant is decorated with a shield with the Blazon 'or three chevrons Gules'. The three chevrons all point upwards and the spaces in between are infilled with red enamel (gules). Some red enamel remains in the shield motiff. The reverse is undecorated. A large loop is situated at the top of the pendant, it is formed from a thin piece of metal looped over. The bottom section or lobe of the pendant is missing, having broken off through the middle of a small pierced hole. The break seems worn and old. Both the right and left lobes are slightly bent backwards. The metal is mid brownish-green in colour with some pitting. Parallels in the shape can be found in Ashley, p.21, fig. 21 and parellels in the design in Ashely, p.11, fig. 11.
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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