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Description: | A damaged, almost complete cast copper-alloy harness pendant of medieval date. It has a flat plate that is lozengiform with rounded knops at the apexes, abraded away at the lateral ones. The top of the plate has a slight rectangular shoulders, above which an integrally cast, forward facing oval suspension loop with off-circular perforation set at 90 degrees to the plane of the plate. The back face of the plate is flat and undecorated, while the front face decoration in the form of double rows of wavy lines that follow the upper edges of the plate. Below is a parallel set of double lines in an inverted 'V' shape that terminates below the lateral apexes. Emerging from the central junction of these latter, and running longitudinally down the centre is another pair of parallel wavy lines. The base of the pendant has been bent in on itself, with a small tear at this point at one side, and the lateral apexes bent and abraded, as mentioned. The artefact has corroded to an orange/brown colour with patches of dark-green corrosion product.
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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