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Description: | Incomplete very worn and eroded Medieval copper alloy and enamel heraldic mount, presumably for harness, missing its attachment stud. 'Or a chevron between three estoiles gules'.
It is shield-shaped, with straight sides and rounded bottom corners. It measures 24.2x32.2x1.8mm. On the reverse is the remains of a stump, now very worn, and 5.8mm in diameter. The mount weighs 9.21g.
The remaining enamel is red in colour and depicts a chevron with a six-pointed star beneath, and above each sloping side another star. The missing enamel was probably gold. Although badly eroded, it is probably the arms of the ARDOUFFE family, an obscure family recorded in Essex in the 15th century.
Although these mounts are assumed to be attached to harness, it is thought they were also attached to more solid objects, such as caskets. One was discovered still attached to an iron stirrup in Oxfordshire (Griffiths, N; FRG Datasheet 12a). | 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: | 1401
1500 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Katie Hinds | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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