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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy unusual harness pendant. This pendant has an incomplete suspension loop set at right angles to the plane of the pendant. The pendant has a flat back face and a projecting front face. It measures 32mm in surviving length.
Below the incomplete suspension loop is a facted waisted rectangular shaft which has longitudinal grooves along its sides, it flares to accomodate a projecting lozenge shape, there are small vertical incisions above the lozenge. The lozenge itself measures c15mm by c15mm in size and is 6mm in thickness compared to the c3.4mm thickness of the rest of the pendant. It is decorated on its front face with a central circle with cross-hatching within it. Below the lozenge there is a horizontal rectangular bar, which is hollow and appears to have originally have had two parallel projections set at 90 degrees from either transverse edge. This bar is now incomplete and its function, other than decorative, is uncertain. All of the front face of this pendant retains traces of gilding, there are also smaller traces of gilding on the flat back face.
No exact parallel could be found for this unusual harness pendant, however, as its suspension loop is set at right angles to the plane of the pendant it is most likely to be medieval in date and probably circa 14th century. | 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
1400 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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