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Description: | Cast copper shield shaped harness pendant. Protruding from the upper edge of the pendant is an integral loop set perpendicular to the face of the pendant on a short, rectangular sectioned neck. One face is decorated with a heraldic design, a vermillion fess and vermillion chevron above and below the fess. The field between the upper chevron and fess is gilded. The reverse of the pendant is undecorated. There is a heavy mid brown/green patina on the surface of the pendant. It measures 44.93mm long and 27.69mm wide abd weighs 16.5g.
Similar pendants in Ashley (Ashley, S 2002 Medieval Armorial Horse Furniture in Norfolk East Anglian Archaeology) are dated to the 13th to 14th centuries. | 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: | Angie Bolton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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