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Description: | A slightly corroded, but complete cast copper-alloy harness pendant of medieval date. The pendant is of floral form (an octofoil), with a central circular boss protruding from which are eight elaborate, moulded petals. Each petal is broadly cinquefoil, emerging on a rectangular stalk. The central petal on each has received a semicircular nick. The exception is the petal from which the sub-circular suspension loop emerges (L.: 11.0mm, W.: 9.3mm, Th.: 3.45mm); it is perpendicular to the main body of the pendant and mostly in front of it. It features a central circular perforation (Dia.: 2.65mm). The lowermost petal features a central perforation, presumably for a dangler. This feature can be seen on another octofoil pendant recorded on this database, HAMP-4990B4, and on the published pendant mentioned below. The object itself is very slightly bent in profile as a result of old damage. Its upper surface is decorated with elements moulded in low relief, possibly once surrounded by enamel using the champlevé technique. The device consists of a central moulded sexfoil (six-petalled flower) surrounded by a six-pointed star. In each of the external cusps of the star is a pellet. Within the sexfoil is a circle surrounded by a groove that depicts a punched sexfoil with central raised pellet. The metal is now a red-brown colour; it has been recently overcleaned. Harness pendants with eight projections are rare (e.g. Saunders ed. 1991, 26; ref. 19) and no direct parallel of 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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