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Description: | A worn, corroded and damaged copper-alloy harness pendant set of medieval date. The set consists of a suspension mount and an openwork pendant, within which a swinger. The suspension mount is of basic construction: a broadly rectangular sheet folded across its width and slotted to accommodate the pendant's suspension loop (max. L.: 15.0mm, max. W.: 7.05mm). Both folded halves of the sheet are corroded and abraded, so much so that form and attachment holes are unclear; the fold at the back is shorter than that at the front. The main body of the pendant is an openwork sexfoil with abraded internal and external protrusions at the junctions of the curves (L.: 32.5mm, W.: 15.65mm). It is elongated at the attachment end and narrows as it forms the pierced suspension loop, the loop at ninety degrees to the pendant. Below the suspension loop the frame is recessed to take the perpendicular suspension loop of the swinger. Below the recessed frame (Th.: 4.7mm) the sexfoil element is thinner, at c. 2.3mm. It has been bent upwards slightly at the base, and is highly corroded; the object as a whole has suffered from considerable corrosion and is now a light-mid green colour. The swinger (L.: 19.9mm, W.: 9.05mm) is a neat, solid sexfoil with a perforation just above its centre presumably for a decorative rivet (as with HAMP1905 on this database). Traces of gilding survive on the swinger, and presumably the whole pendant would have once been gilded. A further example of this form of harness pendant recorded on this database is reference HAMP444.
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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