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Description: | A broken cast copper-alloy pendant of medieval date, moulded into the shape of a scallop shell. There is an incomplete suspension loop at the top, angled at 90 degrees to the plane of the pendant. The pendant is hollow on the reverse and concaved. Below the loop there is a sub-rectangular plate with a circular attachment rivet on the reverse. The object is probably a harness pendant, although it is possible it is a personal pendant. The scallop shell was a common theme in medieval portable material culture, and was a generic symbol for religious pilgrimage and it is possible that this pendant is a pilgrim's souvenir, whether it adorned a person or the trappings of a horse. The incomplete pendant measures 34.7 mm long, 23.85 mm wide, 3.96 mm thick and weighs 10.3 grams. It has a dark green to pale brown patina with areas of purple-brown where the surface metal has worn away.
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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