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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy harness pendant of Medieval date. The bottom half of the pendant is missing due to old breaks. It comprises an incomplete openwork frame with projecting globular knops visible at the top corners, the lower half of the frame now incomplete making an accurate reconstruction of its form problematic. At the top the frame has an elongated rectangular neck from which extends an integrally cast, flattened, oval shaped suspension loop set at right angles to the plane of the frame and with a central circular aperture. Beneath the suspension loop, and within the neck, is a separately cast cylindrical copper-alloy bar that holds in place a secondary pendant enabling it to hinge/swing freely within the interior of the openwork frame. This internal pendant is quatrefoil in form with flattened circular knops at the end of each arm, its flattened oval shaped suspension loop set at right angles to the frame of the plate. The entire object has worn surfaces that retain some dark green/brown patina as well as traces of gilding. It measures 43.77mm in length, 30.69mm in width, 9.26mm in thickness and 12.79g in weight.This is a decorative harness pendant of Medieval date with similar parallels noted on the PAS database and in published sources (e.g. DUR-592890, WMID-4BCBE6, SUSS-908050, Griffiths, 1986: no. 18). These indicate a probable 14th century AD date for the current example.
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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