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Description: | A cast copper-alloy probable harness pendant, suspending piece, of 16th-17th century date.The harness pendant is an openwork lozenge-shape with projecting trefoils on three corners and a tab with a circular perforation on the fourth corner to take the pendant. A raised, lozenge-shaped central boss sits on a rectangular base connected at the corners to the midlengths of the outerframe. The openwork is generally trefoil or sub-heart-shaped.The harness pendant is slightly convex and the corner of the main lozenge-shaped frame has incomplete hooked shanks on the underside.The metal is a copper-alloy with a high tin or other light white metal content.
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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