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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy horse harness pendant or late 12th or early 13th century date. This pendant is crescentic in shape with roughly a third of it missing due to old breaks. It measures 45.2mm in height and 32.2mm in surviving width.
The suspension loop is set at right angles to the plane of the pendant in the centre of a short straight edge, the pendant then curves inwards before flaring into the crescent shape, the edges of this shape are gently rounded. The front face is decorated with bands of decoration which curve with the shape of the pendant and increase in width towards the edges of the pendant, each band contains small circular indentations. These and the plain fields between the bands also retain traces of gilding. Along the edge where the pendant is incomplete due to old breaks there is part of a circular hole which may have originally been a rivet hole, it is 3,2mm in diameter. | 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: | 1150
1300 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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