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Description: | A slightly corroded and bent cast copper-alloy broadly lozengiform harness pendant of medieval date. There is an integral, forward facing (7.7mm) suspension loop at the apex, characteristically at ninety degrees to the body; the pendant flares outwards towards a number of knopped curved protrusions which form its lower half. There are five curved knops in total which have longitudinal symmetry; that at the tip is more elongated than those that flank it. The front has been gilded and is decorated with punched annulets which run in delineated nested, lobed areas from the apex to each curved protrusion, each is separated with a plain section which also runs around the circumference of the pendant. The artefact is slightly bent in profile, most evidenced in the lower half of the artefact. The reverse is plain. The artefact has a mid/dark-green patina over a dark red-brown metal.No direct parallels for this form are apparent either in the literature or on this database, however, the use of punched annulets suggests a late 12th or 13th century date.
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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