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Description: | Flat circular horse-harness pendant, made out of thin copper-alloy and now very corroded, but complete and with surviving gilding and decoration. Some edges seem to have been lost and the pendant must originally have been c. 39-40 mm in diameter. It is decorated with an eight-point star with engraved outline, on a ground of tiny punched annulets all within an engraved border. At the top is a slightly squashed suspension loop which has now just worn/corroded through. There is plenty of rather copper-coloured gilding on the front but none on the back or loop. This type of horse-harness pendant may pre-date the heraldic type. | 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: | 1066
1540 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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