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Description: | The harness pendant is a shield shape in plan. It is made from cast copper alloy and decorated with red enamel. Similar pendants in Ashley are dated to the 13th to 14th centuries, for example No. 53 and 45.
The pendant is decorated on one face. This has a heraldic design with a low relief fretty with a vermillion four-pointed label of the top of the fretty, therefore distorting the fretty. The red enamel of the label is almost complete. No enamel remains within the fretty. The high-relief lozenge shapes of the fretty has traces of a white metal coating, it is a grey shiny colour.
Protruding from the upper edge of the pendant is an integral loop. The loop is situated on a short, rectangular sectioned neck. The loop is incomplete, but this is not a recent break. It is perpendicular to the face of the pendant. On the loop there are traces of gilding.
The reverse of the pendant is undecorated. There are traces of corrosion where the patina is missing, otherwise the patina is a yellow/green colour.
The pendant measures 39.4mm long and 24.5mm wide. It weighs 9.69g. | 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: | 1200
1400 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Angie Bolton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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