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Description: | Medieval copper alloy suspension arm for a horse harness pendant, bent and distorted long circular-sectioned shank with filed faceted sides, one end has a pronounced collar with radial groove and tapers slightly to a blunt terminal. The other end has a slight collar and bifurcates into two flat-sectioned arms with perforated rounded terminals for the suspension of a pendant. Length (unbent) 100mm. Diam of shank 6mm. See shorter examples of broadly similar form on an elaborate harness decoration from Bures St Mary, Suffolk in Martin, Pendleton and Plouviez (2004) Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History 40, 498, fig.149 A.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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