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Description: | Medieval copper alloy harness pendant, missing its enamel. It is 'square' in shape, measuring 29.3x27.7x1.5mm and weighing 10.15g.All original patina is missing.The pendant has a cross-hatch background, at the centre of which is a shield with a cross pommé voided at its centre. The area around the cross is recessed for the missing coloured enamel. There would also have been coloured enamel in the void of the cross. The cross itself would have been silvered or gilded, and the sruface of the rest of the pendant probably gilded.The loop, turned through 90°, leans slightly forwards through design and has a rounded turned-up end above which is a tiny horizontal groove.Nick Griffiths comments: "Pendants like this one are amongst the earliest enamelled, around 1260-1275". There is some thought that these pendants might have been made in the Wiltshire/ Dorset area.
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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