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Description: | A cast copper-alloy harness pendant of Medieval date. It has a flat, leaf-shaped plate (triangular with rounded corners, tapering towards the base), at the top centre of which is an integrally cast oval suspension loop set at right angles to the plane of the plate and with a single circular aperture. The back face of the plate is slightly convex, the front face convex, although now slightly flattened due to post-depositional damage. On the front face are the remains of worn incised and gilded decoration. This comprises a single grooved border that at the top of the plate beneath the suspension loop curves inwards to form oval fields either side of the suspension loop filled with vertical zig-zag lines. Beneath this is an elongated trefoil or trifoliate motif that extends to the tip of the pendant, with two semi-circular grooves above it at the centre of the plate. All areas of the front face have the remains of relatively thickly applied, but worn, gilding. It measures 37.98mm in length, 24.32mm in width, 2.69mm in thickness at plate, and 3.34g in weight.This harness pendant is of Medieval date. It shares parallels with early non-armorial and armorial harness pendants published from Norfolk (Ashley, 2002: fig. 5 no. 1, fig. 6 nos. 2-3) and is likely to date to between the 12th and early-13th centuries AD.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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