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Description: | A shield shaped (copper-alloy) harness pendant with traces of enamelling surviving on the surface of the pendant. The pendant consists of a shield shaped plate of copper-alloy, with the suspension loop still attached. The loop only survives as a small lump, projecting from the top of the shield. The lump is heavily worn and corroded. The surface of the pendant is also heavily corroded but the design can still be seen. The pendant depicts three rampant lions (one on top of the other). Traces of a read (gules) enamel survive on the top half of the front surface of the pendant. The design only survives as a series of lines and areas filled in with the surviving enamel. The reverse is also heavily corroded and worn. The metal is a patchy mid brownish-green colour. The corrosion has eaten away much of the original surface, the thickest part of the pendant measures only 3.25mm. This type of harness pendant date to the medieval period and are circa 12th ? 14th century in date. Parallel can be seen in Ashley, 2001, 10, fig: 10. | 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: | 1100
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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