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Description: | Shield-shaped horse-harness pendant with heraldic decoration together with its suspension mount, both made of copper alloy. The pendant has three chevrons filled with red enamel and a tiny fragment of shiny silvery ?gilding. It has a suspension loop turned through 90 degrees still fixed to a mount. The mount consists of two rounded domed lobes, one above the other; the upper one has an integral spike on the reverse, now bent into a hook, and the lower one has a central slot with a perforation running through either half. There is a small trace of gilding. An iron hinge bar survives in the perforation which has corroded to fix the pendant in position. The arms are probably those of the de Clare family (in heraldic language, or three chevrons gules) although there is a little doubt as the 'gilding' is very silvery. The de Clare family were extremely powerful both locally and nationwide (e.g. in Ireland) and their arms are fairly common on harness pendants. Total length, as corroded in bent position, 48 mm. Dimensions of shield 24.5 x 18 mm. | 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: | 1200
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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