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Description: | Medieval harness pendant; small cast copper alloy harness pendant with enamelled decoration of probable 14th century date. The pendant is a broad shield-shape with a neck extending from the centre of the top in the perpendicular plane. The neck is pierced at the top to form a suspension loop. The pendant is decorated on the front with moulded vertical lines which have a break halfway down, thereby forming upper and lower panels of vertical stripes. The lines contain a pale green substance which may well be the degraded remains enamel. The reverse is undecorated. Overall length 26.9mm, main body length 17.8mm, width 18.9mm, thickness 1.7mm, maximum thickness 5.7mm, weight 3.05g Ref: Griffiths 'Harness pendants and associated fittings' in 'The Medieval Horse and its Equipment' (pp. 61-71)
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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