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Description: | Medieval copper alloy enamelled and gilded square mount from horse harness. The enamelling is in an exceptional condition. The edges of the square are flanked with a line of gilding, just inside which there are four 2mm diameter piercings, one in each corner and with traces of gilding around their edges. In the centre of the mount is a sunken circular area, outlined in gilding and filled with a light blue enamel. At the centre of this is a cross defined in copper alloy and filled with red enamelling. From each arm of the cross three c.2mm long lines extend, each one with a circle or oval at its other end. These are also copper alloy and have traces of gilding, along with the outline of the cross. In the corners of the mount there are traces of gilding too, perhaps suggesting the whole object was gilded. The mount is slightly curving down at each corner. The cross is that of Toulouse and seems a popular depiction in the early 1200s, Simon de Montfort being covered in them on his tomb-slab in Carcasonne, France. Measuring 26x25.5mm with thickness 1mm. Early 13th century. Cf Ashley 2002, p.19, nos.174-177. | 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: | 1201
1240 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Katie Hinds | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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