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Description: | Worn and corroded medieval copper alloy horse harness pendant and suspension stud: the sub-rectangular stud has an integral spike on the reverse (length 9mm) and twin perforated lugs at the base containing an iron pin retaining the loop of a copper alloy pendant. The pendant is an elaborate quatrefoil (length with loop 34mm, Width 24.5mm). Combined length 43.5mm. The surface treatment of the metal is missing, although fragments of a red enamel field survive, as do traces of the engraved beast originally reserved on the field. Blazon: Gules a gryllus hooded sejant to dexter ?Or/Argent. A gryllus is a monster of dissimilar body parts. It often comprises a human head and a bird-like body with a tail and two legs. In other instances the body is that of a lion (as is probable here) or a wyvern. See lozengiform examples with similar motifs in Ashley (2002), fig. 17, nos. 154-5. 13th-14th century. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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