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Description: | A Medieval copper alloy shield shaped mount with the stub of an integrally cast rivet on the reverse. The front of the mount is flat and the shield has a straight top with curved sides meeting at a point at the bottom. The front of the mount is decorated with three bends gules, three alternate diagonal bands of red enamel and plain copper-alloy running from top left to bottom right. The design was probably originally bendy argent and gules or bendy or and gules depending on if the plain copper alloy was gilded or silvered originallyThe mount is 18.0mm long,16.8mm wide at the top, and 2.2mmm thick. The mount weighs 2.87g.Heraldic studs were used to decorate harness and other straps as well as scabbards and even tombs and were most popular from the later 13th to 14th centuries (Griffiths 1989:1). Bendy agent and gules was used by the Talbot family until AD 1248-1274 when Gilbert Talbot chose to use his wife's arms instead. Such a simple armorial bearing may also have been used by other families, as may bendy or and gules, as our records for the 13th century are not complete and firm rules of one person - one design of arms were only just being established at that time.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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