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Description: | Medieval gilt copper alloy horse harness pendant, circular, eight-lobed (leaf-shaped lobes, four of which are broken) with a broken suspension-loop springing from uppermost and the lower one perforated and containing an copper alloy dome-headed rivet. Tiny fragment of gilding and red and blue enamel survive. Azure a cross within a crown of thorns Or voided Gules. >30 x >38mm. cf. Griffiths (1995), no.71, 67-8, fig.50. Two similar examples from Norfolk, one from Shelton, the other from Harling are listed (under Wheel) but not illustrated in Ashley (2002), p.52. 13th-14th century.
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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