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Description: | Medieval cast copper alloy suspension bar for a harness pendant of probable 13th - 14th century date. The hanger is T shaped with a horizontal top bar ending in a round lobe at one end with a separate copper alloy rivet through it; the other end is lost to an old break. The sides of the bar curves inwards slightly between the ends and the centre. From the centre two bars project down which would have formed the loops to hold the spindle on which the pendant hung. Most of the loops are missing to old breaks but there are traces of iron corrosion and part of the back of the loops still adhering to the hanger. The top bar is decorated with a design of raised transverse lines with two annulets between the lines on the central portion and a raised line lozenge outlining the rivet on the complete end. There are also traces of gilding. It is 39.1mm long, 15.3mm wide, 2.4mm thick and weighs 3.8 grams.A similar, but undecorated, example is illustrated in Griffiths (1995) 'Harness pendants and associated fittings' in Clark, J. (1995) 'The Medieval Horse and its Equipment' (pp. 69, fig. 52, nos. 73).
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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