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Description: | Complete copper alloy decorated harness pendant of Medieval date, probably thirteenth or fourteenth century. Length 35mm, width 28mm and 3.5mm thick. Weight 9.61g. The pendant is quatrefoil-shaped in plan and has a suspension loop turned through 90 degrees. The lower foil is bent slightly towards the rear and the loop perforation is sub-round in shape and is broken through by wear or erosion. The decoration is in the form of a griffin on a blue enamelled ground and the shape of the griffin would also have been filled with enamel. However, this enamel has not survived. The griffin has the hind parts of a lion married to the head, breast, claws and wings of an eagle. The rear of the pendant is plain.
A close parallel for this pendant has been found at Billingsgate in London (Griffiths, N. 1995, 66). In this example the griffin was silvered on a red ground. | 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 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Frank Basford | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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