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Description: | A complete copper-alloy horse harness decorative fitting. Roughly rectangular in shape, measuring 52mm in length and 8.2mm in width, the front face is rounded and the back face flat. There is a raised central square boss in the centre of this fitting (8.5mm by 8.5mm in size). The rectangular shaft is seperated from the shaped terminals by a double cusp. The terminals are rounded , each with a circular rivet hole through their centre, and terminate with a tapering horizontal projection (5.7mm in length and 3.8mm in width. Traces of gilding can be seen on the front face of this fitting. Harness pendant suspension mounts are similar to this example, the horizontal element of such mounts has similarily shaped terminals with double cusps seperating them from the shaft. These have been discovered in London they are medieval and c14th century in date (Clark 1995, 69, fig 52). | 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
1450 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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