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Description: | Copper alloy harness pendant. Cast openwork quatrefoil loop with the stubs of an oval suspension loop set at right angles to its display plane. The top of the upper lobe is filled, being flat on the display face and hollowed behind, with a rivet with a rounded head of diameter 4.8mm and shank diameter 2.3mm passing through it and being bent behind. This presumably relates to a further element, now lost, which would be framed by the quatrefoil, possibly with play permitting some movement. Gilding remains on the display face. Heraldic quatrefoil pendants are considered of later medieval date, after c.1340, though the more complex composite pendant is an earlier, 12th-to-13th-century, type. Suggested date: probably Late Medieval, 1350-1450.Height: 45.7mm, Width: 35.8mm, Thickness: 4.6mm, Weight: 6.45gms.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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