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Description: | A late 15th or early 16th century silver-gilt, hexagonal pendant, each alternate facet is decorated with a tear in relief and a concave boss. The shape tapers outwards and terminates at its closed end in a small knop. The open end has one surviving hole for attachment to fabric; the other is lost through damage. The pendant may have formed the terminal of a lady?s girdle. It relates to an object in the British Museum collection (1984,11-1,1), also decorated with tears, found near Kings Lynn, and to a recent find of similar construction from near Bury St Edmunds (2003/T115) which is decorated with fleurs-de-lys. This is the smallest of the three, measuring only 21mm in length and c10.6mm in width.
Examined and described by J P Robinson, Curator of Medieval Collections, British Museum, 15th April 2004, under the Treasure Act. | 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: | 1475
1525 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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