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Description: | Cast copper alloy suspension mount for a horse-harness pendant; square plate pierced in each corner with a circular attachment hole (2 upper holes damaged); the lower edge of the plate has a slotted extension with a central pin which engages with the suspension loop from the pendant which is now missing; the front surface of the square plate is decorated with a lion guardant on a recessed circular ground once inlaid with blue enamel (of which small areas remain); the surface of the metal outside the recessed field and on the lion retains traces of gilding; the surface of the metal is worn and corroded; cf. BRF Misc | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1300
1400 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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