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Description: | Copper-alloy horse-harness pendant and its suspension mount. The suspension mount is symmetrical and consists of a bar 14mm in length, 5mm wide and 4mm thick. The bar is triangular in cross-section and terminates at either end with a pierced and knopped circle. The holes would originally have been for rivets, but none now survive. There are two lugs below projecting at right angles from the centre of the bar; the lugs are pierced to take a surviving copper-alloy pin which secures the pendant in situ.
The pendant is circular, thin and flat, and has a suspension loop at the top at a right angle to the plane of the object. The face of the pendant is decorated with a crude and uneven six-pointed star set on a background of punched circles. The pendant is 30mm in diameter and 0.6mm thick. The pendant is similar to several illustrated in Ashley (2002), fig. 6, nos. 7, 11 and 12. These are dated to the 12th or early 13th 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: | 1150
1250 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Adam Daubney | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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