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Description: | Probably a fragment of a Medieval copper-alloy horse-harness pendant, with traces of gilding on the front face.
It resembles a flying bird or fleur-de-lis, with a trilobed terminal. The central lobe is oval and resembles a head, whilst the pointed lobes to either side are aligned at right angles to this and point downwards resembling wings. There are oblique grooves separating the lobes. At the bottom is a smaller sub-rectangular protrusion, split into three by two grooves, thus resembling a tail.
Integrally cast perpendicularly onto the central lobe at the top edge is a perforated flat plate 11mm long, that expands from 4.2mm to 6.6mm wide. In the centre of the bird or lis is a separate copper-alloy rivet, circular in cross-section and 5mm in diameter. It measures 28x16x9mm and weighs 4.60g.
The object may have formed the inner separate pendant of an openwork pendant, for example Read 2001, 468-470; although pendants with rivets from less complex suspension mounts are known, for example Read 2001, 453. Probably 14th century. | 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: | 1300
1400 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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