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Description: | Large but incomplete shield-shaped plaque. 51 mm wide, and probably originally about 62 mm long, it is slightly and unevenly convex. It is decorated with a relief lion rampant which has the remains of a thick shiny white-metal coating. Across the lion runs a narrow diagonal line, from the upper edge near the left-hand corner down to just above the break. This line has the remains of red enamel. The line cuts across the lion's head, making it hard to see its details, but there is a spot of red enamel at the back of the head, perhaps between open jaws, which may show that it was reguardant (looking backwards towards its tail). The background has tiny traces of a dark enamel, possibly black or dark blue. There is a raised border all around; at the top this border has an engraved line running along it. There is no obvious means of attachment on the reverse. This large plaque may be a harness mount, or may be from a box or even a memorial brass. The 'charge' in heraldic language is Azure/sable a lion rampant reguardant argent, debruised by a bendlet gules. There are three Suffolk families whose arms these might be; the Weylands, the Boylands and the Colvilles. | 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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