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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy Medieval (1200-1400) shield-shaped horse harness pendant with traces of red enamel, missing just less than half of the shield. It is broken from one side of the loop (which is turned through 90 degrees), diagonally to the tip. It measures 35.70mm in length, 13.60mm in width, 6.4mm in thickness (the actual shield is 2.40mm thick) and weighs 3.91g. It possibly depicts a stylised lion in the left hand corner, upright and facing left, its legs extending horizontally left, its tailing extending right and curling upwards (Rob Webley pers. comm. January 2014). Below and to the right are the remains of another device, probably another lion.The break is angled, from the upper face to the reverse of the pendant, suggesting it was intentionally cut. This is reminiscent of seal matrices that have been 'cancelled' (intenionally broken at the end of their lives so they could no longer be used).
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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