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Description: | Medieval gilt copper alloy horse harness pendant, shield-shaped with traces of gilding and of red and enamel survive. Blazon: Gules a triple-towered castle [Or] on a chief [Azure] a lion passant guardant a bordure Or. Cf. Read 2001, fig.30, no.396. These arms contain possible abstracted elements from the arms of England (Gules three lions passant guardant Or, with the colour of the field changed here) and Castile and Leon (Castile: Gules a castle Or). They may refer to the alliance by marriage between Eleanor of Castile and Edward I, in 1254. Eleanor died in 1290. Height 50mm (of shield itself 35mm). Width 33mm. 13th - 14th century.
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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