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Description: | Horse-harness pendant and suspension mount, both made from copper alloy gilded on the front. The pendant is drop-shaped and slightly convex, with a large rounded terminal at the narrower end set with a circular cabochon glass setting. The rest of the pendant is decorated with transverse grooves, and there is a suspension loop extending from the centre of the wider end. The pendant measures 30 mm long but just 9 mm wide, and is made of fairly thick metal. It is attached by a copper-alloy hinge bar to the suspension mount, which tapers from the hinge loops to a transverse moulding and then has a larger circular terminal with no setting. On the reverse of the terminal is an integral rivet. The hinge loops are made by folding the mount back on itself and cutting a slot. The mount measures 20 x 8.5 mm, and the entire ensemble is 45 mm long. | 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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