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Description: | Cast copper probable harness pendant. The pendant is a sub ?+? shape in plan. At the centre there is a square block with an ?X? in the centre filled with red enamel. The field around the ?X? has traces of gilding. Narrowed and protruding from each edge of this block is an arm. Each arm is semi-circular in section. The arms terminated with a bulbous oval. The surfaces of these terminals are abraded, but fine low-relief ?feathering? is visible. The lower terminal has a cast copper alloy rivet protruding on the reverse. The rivet head has been hammered on the outer surface to become flush with the surface. Each oval is slightly hollow on the reverse. The upper bulbous oval has an integral lug protruding. The lug has a circular hole which is perpendicular to the pendant. The bulbous oval on the right-hand side also has an integral secondary arm protruding. This arm is narrowed, is semi-circular in section and terminates with a possible simplistic dog head. The opposite terminal has a broken edge suggesting there was originally a matching secondary arm originally. The reverse of the pendant is undecorated. The pendant has an abraded surface with traces of a dark green patina. It measures 56.32mm long and 59.7mm wide and weighs 18.4g.
A similar pendant has not been found. The closest example is in Ashley (Ashley, S 2002 Medieval Armorial Horse Furniture in Norfolk East Anglian Archaeology), No. 234 which is dated to the 12th to 13th centuries, and is classed as an elaborate pendant. | 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
1300 | 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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