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Description: | Copper-alloy suspension mount for a medieval horse-harness pendant. It is flat and roughly square, with a narrower and smaller rectangular extension folded over and behind with a slot cut for the loop of the pendant. The copper-alloy hinge bar survives within the fold. To each corner of the main square part of the mount is a rivet hole, two of which are now damaged; all of the rivets are missing. The front is decorated with a sunken circular recess, within which is a counter-relief design of an equal-armed cross with a sunken centre. Each arm of the cross ends in three long blobs, perhaps intended to show a cross fleury. Around the cross, within the circular recess, are traces of red enamel; any inlay within the central sunken area of the cross does not survive. The object has a dark green patina, but is heavily abraded. Exposed surfaces are almost black. It is 37.54mm long including the hinge projection, 30.48mm wide, 1.76mm thick and weighs 8.3g. It dates to the 13th or 14th centuries AD. | 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: | Caroline McDonald | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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