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Description: | Cast copper alloy Medieval harness mount with an eagle pendant.The hanger is the shape of an upside down Y- the pendant hanging between the two arms. It is attached by a loop around an axis bar which is fixed between the two arms.The hanger has a stud on the reverse.which is 7.5mm long. Just above where the hanger splits into two arms there is a line of vertical grooves as decoration. The pendant is in the shape of an eagle with its head turned to the right and its wings outstretched at either side. Detail has been picked out all over the front of the eagles body in grooves to represent feathers. The hanger and pendant are gilded on the front although this only remains in patches now. The reverse is plain with no decoration.In total the mount is 46mm high, the eagle being 26mm of this. The eagle is 17.5mm wide. A similar example has been recorded from Norfolk, Fig.25, no.3 (Ashley; 2002).
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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A Medieval copper-alloy harness pendant…
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