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Description: | An incomplete cast copper sub-circular shaped harness pendant. Protruding from the upper edge of the pendant is an integral loop set perpendicular to the face of the pendant, on a short, rectangular sectioned neck. The body of the pendant is a sub-circle in plan, with abraded lower edges. The outer face of the pendant is slightly convex, and the reverse is slightly hollow. On the outer face there are traces of gilding. The reverse of the pendant is undecorated. The surface of the pendant is abraded and has traces of a dark green patina. It measures 32.02mm long, 20.33mm wide and 6.1mm thick at the mount, weighing 2.8g. The condition of the pendant is poor and abraded.
Griffiths (1986 Horse Harness Pendants Finds Research Group Datasheet No. 5.) illustrates a similar shaped pendant, Figure 5 and comments the earliest dated pendants are 12th century, but they are more common in the 13th and 14th 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: | 1200
1400 | 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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