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Description: | Copper alloy Harness Pendant. Cast rectangular plate with an oval loop at right angles to the plane of its display face and projecting forward of its surface. The display face itself bears a (now) dull buff deposit with numerous tiny pellets (diameter 0.5mm) across its surface. The coating may be the relict of an enamel or gilded field, and the spotted surface is also deliberate; this distinctive surface does not appear elsewhere on the object. An heraldic device set in this field comprises a pair of lions combatant facing each other with a staff fleury - appearing as a pillar with three branches at its top - between them. The lions were presumably of a yellow tint when the metal was fresh. The suspension loop is broken at the top. The rectangular pendant is a form favoured in the 12th or early 13th century, and this device is paralleled on similar pendants from Besthorpe and Kenninghall, Norfolk (Ashley 2002, page 9 fig. 9 no. 29), both gilded overall. Suggested date: 1185-1225.Height: 26.1mm, Width: 18.4mm, Thickness: 1.9mm, Weight: 4.16gms.
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