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Description: | A copper alloy shield shaped horse harness pendant from the medieval period. The pendant has a pointed base and curved sides with a flat top. It is 36mm long and 21.8mm wide. The shield is 3.4mm thick. It is decorated with three diagonal lines evenly spaced across the shield running from top left to bottom right. There are traces of red enamel in these lines. The areas between the lines have indentations in them and may have carried further decoration which is no longer legible. There is a circular projecting lug on the top of the shield in the centre with a circular hole through it from side to side. The lug is 6.8mm thick. There are minute traces of gilt on all sides of the pendant. The metal is dark brown in colour with areas of rich dark green, almost blue, corrosion. Similar heraldic horse harness pendants can be seen in Cherry (1991). | 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: | 1066
1500 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Amy Downes | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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