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Description: | A complete cast copper alloy non-armorial horse harness pendant of Medieval date (c. AD 1150 - c. AD 1450). Length 29.4m, width 15.0mm and about 4.8mm thick. Weight 2.53g.The pendant is circular in plan (15.0mm in diameter) with a convex front and a concave rear. Protruding from the upper edge of the pendant is a relatively large integral neck and loop which is rectangular in cross-section and turned through 90° to the plane of the pendant itself. The neck of the loop projects slightly forwards with the top curving to the rear. The perforation forming the loop is circular and has a diameter of about 2.8mm.The object is in poor condition and corroded overall. No evidence for decoration or gilding has survived.A similar harness pendant is published in Ashley, S. 2002. Medieval Armorial Horse Furniture in Norfolk. 5, fig. 5, ref. 4. Norfolk: East Anglian Archaeology.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. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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