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Description: | Enamelled and silvered copper-alloy horse-harness pendant. Quatrefoil in shape, it has a suspension loop projecting from the centre of one foil. There is a square in the centre with a blue enamel background, on which is a reserved metal stag running. Each foil has a metal background with a red enamel bird. The birds are in profile, and each have a tail and two folded wings projecting from their rears; they have two three-toed feet and a head with a dot metal eye turned to look back over their shoulder, with the beak pointing backwards. Each bird is orientated with its feet outwards; the two side ones have their heads uppermost and the top and bottom ones have their heads to the right (as you look at the pendant). All the metal surfaces have a dark grey coating, the remains of a white-metal (tin or silver) plating. The birds are not heraldic, and the stag at this date is unlikely to be heraldic either. The two together are probably representative of hunting and may have formed a set with other pendants. This was found together with sf5981 and, although one is gilded and the other silvered, they do fit together well and could have formed part of the same set. | 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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