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Title: HARNESS PENDANT [Go to resource]
Description: A complete copper-alloy two-part harness pendant in very good condition, medieval and circa 1300-1500 century in date, consisting of an outer pendant frame and a solid inner pendant. The outer pendant frame is shaped like a six-petalled flower with a suspension loop set at right angles to the plane of the pendant. The suspension loop is at the terminal of a two parallel rectangular shafts, which projects from the top of the middle of the central petal. The outer pendant measures 46mm in length and 32mm in width. The inner pendant is also a circular six-petalled flower, each petal fitting inside a larger petal of the outer pendant frame. The inner pendant measures c23mm in diameter and is attached to the frame via a suspension loop, again turned through 90 degrees. A copper-alloy bar, which runs horizontally across and through the parallel rectangular shafts of the outer pendant frame, runs through the inner pendants suspension loop. The lower central lobe of the inner pendant has a copper-allor rivet through it with a rove on the back face. This seems an unusual place to have a rivet as presumably the inner pendant was designed to swing freely, perhaps it is a later modification. The inner pendant is decorated on its front face with a central motif of three stalks, which radiate upwards and outwards from the centre of the lower edge of the pendant, and terminate in five petalled heads. The field behind this motif is divided in half longitudinally the right hand half is filled with blue enamel and the left hand side with red enamel. This design is purley decorative and has no heraldic connotations. Traces of gilding can also be seen on the inner pendant. The back faces of both the outer frame and the inner pendant are flat, they are undecorated apart from tiny traces of gilding. This two-part pendant is similar in shape to another example from Isleham, Cambridgeshire (see SF-9810), although this example is less decorative. 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 1500 Source: Portable Antiquities Identifier: http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... Language: en-GB Format: text/html Go to resource More Like this...
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