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Description: | A complete cast copper-alloy harness pendant. This pendant is lozenge shaped and measures 41mm in length and 30mm in width. It has a suspension loop set at right angles to the plane of the pendant itself.
The front face has a heraldic device on it. The background is now black metal, possibly once gilded or silvered, there is a greeny-blue 'bend' of enamel on it there are three six-pointed stars or 'mullets'- these are also black metal but with their centres inlaid with red enamel. The blazon of the arms would be [argent/or]on a bend axure/vert, three mullets [argent/or] pierced gules.
There is no precise match for this arms but it is possible that it is perhaps, Bosville; argent on a bend azure three mullets, or Morby; argent on a bend axure three mullets or Ho[o]ton, of Cheshire; argent on a bend vert three mullets or even possibly a version of Hotham, of Yorkshire; argent, on a bend sable three mullets argent, pierced gules. It is medieval and c14th century in date. | 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
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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