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Description: | Copper-alloy harness decoration of probable mid 13th to 15th C. AD date. The piece consists of a large shield-shaped plate measuring 69mm high by 49.1mm wide and 1.3mm thick. The piece is slightly damaged and bent. Its display surface is decorated with a repeating fleur-de-lys pattern. This decoration is slightly raised and the depressions in between contain traces of red enamel. There are also possible traces of gilding. A single sub-square rivet hole exists at the centre of the top edge of the object. The object is slightly corroded. It weighs 25.91g. | 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: | 1250
1500 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Julian Watters | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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