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Description: | Cast copper alloy fragment from a Medieval harness fitting. It consists of a sub-shield shaped piece with a circular shaft extending from the pointed end. The shaft is short and straight and most likely to be broken but wear makes this difficult to confirm. It is very worn all over and corrosion has caused pitting of the surface. There are small fragments of red enamel on one face of the shield but the design is totally missing. It is possible that the shield had a design on both faces- possibly heraldic in nature. This item is probably from the same group of fittings as harness pendants and the following two items recorded on the database as SWYOR-66F0E1 and LANCUM-9F42C2 which are shields set on shafts and are described as mounts. Nick Griffith's FRG datasheet on shield shaped mounts discusses these. He says: "Finally and of uncertain purpose is a small group of shields, double sided (some repeat the same design, others have different designs) at the top of a rod or bar curved into a hook (fig. 14). The heraldic design is surely meant to be upright, so the 'hook' cannot have been used to suspend the shield; it may have slotted into a surface, to produce a standing shield." .
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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