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Description: | A complete copper-alloy shield shaped harness strap fitting, measuring 18.47mm in length and 15.06mm in width. The front face is decorated with a lion rampant on gules (red enamel). The colour originally inset within the lion no longer remains. On the back face there is a tapering off centre tapering integral rivet, with a square cross-section, measuring 10.70mm in length and 4.74mm in width. This heraldic harness strap fitting is medieval in date, similar heraldic harness strap fittings have been discovered in Walpole St Peter and Little Durham, Norfolk (Ashley 2002, 15, 37, fig 15). | 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: | 1300
1500 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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