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Description: | A worn copper-alloy medieval circa 14th century harness pendant. This pendant is shield shaped and has a suspension loop set at right angles to the plane of the pendant, it measures 33.8mm in length and 17.6mm in width. There is corroded iron through the suspension loop which is prssumably the remains of an iron bar or rivet, which would have held this pendant to its pendant suspension mount originally. The front face of the pendant is now worn but appears to show a central shield surrounded with eight martlets, which have a recessed field around them. This recessed field would presumably have held enamel originally but no trace of it now remains. A similar pendant of the same shape and design, but with martlets recessed, has been found in Norfolk at Quidenham, and identified as the heraldic arms of Vane, Vanly, Vaulx or Vaux from Norfolk (Ashley 2002, p 14, fig 14,no 108, p45) other possibilities include the Walcot family, Geney family of Gislingham, Suffolk, or Erpingham family of Thornham, Norfolk. All of whom had arms with a central escutcheon within an orle of eight martlets in various different colours (Corder, 1965, 287). | 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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Horse harness pendant, corroded, shield-shaped…
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