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Description: | Incomplete cast copper alloy horse harness pendant of Medieval date, probably fourteenth or fifteenth century. Length 40mm, maximum width 16mm and maximum thickness 5mm. Weight 4.27g.The pendant is pentagonal in plan and has an elongated suspension loop that is turned through 90º to the plane of the pendant. The "shank" of the loop is sub-rectangular in cross-section and is bent to one side from its original alignment. Viewing the shank from the front, it tapers from the top of the pendant plate, where it is 6mm in width, towards the perforation where it is 1.2mm in width. The perforation to take the bar is incomplete due to an old brake. The top of the pendant "plate" slopes downward each side of the base of the shank at an angle of 45° for a distance of about 4mm. At this point the angles change to form sides that flare gently outwards towards the bottom. The bottom of the pendant is horizontal and prior to a break at the right hand corner, it had three equally spaced semi-circular indentations (two indentations survive). This break at the bottom is old. Viewing the piece from the side, the loop shank flares from the pendant plate where it is 3mm in width , towards the broken perforation where it is 5mm in widthOn the rear face a distinction is made between the shank and the thinner plate by a small step.The front face is decorated with lines of punched "dots". However, some of this decoration has been lost due to corrosion. Consequently it is not possible to determine whether the dots would have originally formed a more elaborate pattern. The rear face is plain.The piece has a mid-green patina accompanied by areas of corrosion caused by active bronze disease.No analogy for this pendant has been found by the recorder.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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