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Description: | Cast copper alloy shield shaped horse harness pendant with seperate copper alloy rivet. The pendant is a square topped shield with damaged edges. There is a central lug extending from the top with a broken transverse circular piercing for suspension. The front is decorated with an inpressed shield divided horizontally in two parts. The upper part contains a lion or leopard going left and facing forward (passant guardant). The lower half contains a raised design of a building with central doorway and towers, probably a castle, with traces of gilding. There are fragments of enamelling in the impressed area which are now dark grey with white spots, the original colour is not clear but could have been black or white. The impressed shield is surrounded by a wide border with a double row of short dashes running around the edge. In heraldic terms this would be emblazoned as: [...]a castle or, in chief [...] a lion (or leopard) passant guardent[...] within a bordue [...] (the colours are unknown and expressed as [...]). Without the colours it is hard to establish the original appearence of the arms and research in the usual sources has not provided possible matches.The rivet is circular in section and runs though near the point. It may have been used to attach the pendant to a harness after the top suspension lug had broken. Several other examples that combine suspension loops and rivets are found on the database e.g. DF-773F35, LEIC-F13417 and SUSS-500668. The latter is also shield shaped.The shield is 39.9mm long, 30.1mm wide and 1.8mm thick; the lub is 13.3mm long, 5.4mm wide and 7.3mm thick, the rivet is 7.9mm long and 2.7mm in diameter. The entire thing weighs 12.53 grams.
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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