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Description: | Circular enamelled copper-alloy disc, perhaps a pendant. 30 mm in diameter, 2 mm thick and slightly convex, some of the edges are worn or broken and it is possible that a suspension loop has completely vanished. There are no rivets or holes. The edge of the ?pendant has traces of gilding. The design is of the royal arms of the Stuarts, with a raised rose to one side and a raised thistle to the other, and the raised initials I + R above. The enamelling around the shield is black; the shield has bright blue and red enamel surviving. If this is a James I harness pendant, it is very unusual, as harness pendants went out of use in the 15th century. It may be an example of a king using deliberately old-fashioned objects to show his status (similar to our queen riding in a horse-drawn carriage). | 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: | 1603
1625 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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