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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy harness pendant of Medieval date. It is missing most of the suspension loop and the separately cast internal pendant due to old breaks. The pendant has an openwork sexfoil frame with flat back face and projecting mouldings at each angle of the foil. At the top the foil elongates to a rectangular suspension loop that is flat, rectangular in form and with with an incomplete loop set at right angles to the plane of the frame. Below the suspension loop the elongated top of the foil has a transverse circular aperture through which passes a separately cast axis bar. Pendant from the bar is an incomplete copper-alloy pendant 'swinger' that is rectangular in form with a cylindrical terminal extending from its bottom edge that is now incomplete due to old breaks. Traces of gilding are visible in places on the exterior surfaces of the frame. It measures 37.46mm in length, 25.80mm in width, 5.36mm in thickness, and weighs 7.55g.This is a Medieval harness pendant similar to other examples recorded through the PAS but missing its internal swinger (see for example LIN-491E57, SUSS-908050, ESS-371931 or GLO-7605D8). It is of Medieval date, probably belonging in the 13th or 14th centuries AD.
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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HARNESS
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