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Description: | Medieval cast copper alloy horse harness pendant with enamelled heraldic decoration. The pendant is in the shape of a square topped shield with a projecting bar from the centre of the top edge which ends in an old break but probably finished in a transverse suspension lug. The shield is decorated with: or a chevron gules between three torteaux, bezants or pellets. A gold back ground with a red chevron on it between three circles. The pendant is 19.9mm long excluding the lug, 16.4mm wide and 2.7mm thick, the projection is 7.2mm long, 3.9mm wide and 3.6mm thick. It weighs 3.24 grams.Or, a chevron gules between three golpes (purple circles) and Or, a chevron between bezants gules were the arms of Glenham but other families held similar arms with different coloured circles. Harness pendants are generally dated from the twelfth to the fourteenth century, with enamelled and heraldic types predominating in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries (Griffiths, 1995:62).
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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