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Description: | A probable medieval horse harness pendant component, cast in copper alloy with enamel decoration. The object is globular, 9.66mm in diameter at its widest point and narrows gradually. It superficially resembles an Anglo-Saxon pinhead, however at the thin end there are the worn remains of a suspension loop. The object is decorated with 13 small concave depressions, which are fairly regularly spaced in three lines (the upper of 5, the central line of 5 and the line closest to the loop of 3). Most of the depressions contain enamel, which has degraded to a creamy colour. The harness pendant is eccentric and elaborate, both of which point towards a 12th or early 13th century date (pers. comm. Geoff Egan).
Weight: 4.15g | 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
1250 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Naomi Payne | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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