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Description: | Medieval Gilt copper alloy horse harness mount, shield-shaped with perforated rectangular lug projecting from upper edge and base of shield, traces of gilding and red and blue enamel survive. Blazon: Gules a triple-towered castle Or on a chief Azure a lion passant guardant a bordure Or. The castle and lion are decorated with engraved rocker arm detail and the bordure with twin median lines. Cf. Read (2001), fig.30, no.396. These arms contain possible abstracted elements from the arms of England (Gules three lions passant guardant Or, with the colour of the field changed here) and Castile and Leon (Castile: Gules a castle Or). They may refer to the alliance by marriage between Eleanor of Castile and Edward I, in 1254. Eleanor died in 1290. | 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
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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