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Description: | A copper alloy Medieval harness pendant. It is trefoil-shaped pendant with a suspension loop at the top, turned at ninety degrees. There are three crowns, one within each foil, and there is green corrosion product over one half of the pendant. The recessed areas around the crowns would have been filled with enamel, and there are a few spots of a darkish, ?red deposit visible. The pendant measures 40.57mm in length, 30.13mm in width, and weighs 8.18g.Ashley illustrates two examples of trefoil harness pendants from Norfolk, and describes them as a comparatively rare type. Both of these bear the same decoration, the three crowns, which are the arms of the Bishop of Ely. The blazon of the arms is given as Gules three crowns Or, suggesting that the spots of enamel on the Brockley example are likely to have been red. A date from the late thirteenth to early fourteenth centuries is probable.
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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