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Description: | Cast copper alloy horse harness pendant in the form of a quatrefoil frame surrounding a cruciform pendant. The cruciform has moulded grooves on all sides of the central square which holds a domed stud which is circular in plan (3 mm in diameter) and cylindrical in profile (6 mm long), but bent at the back. The crucifrom is held within the frame by a pin that crosses transversely through the arm of the pendant and the upper apex of the frame. The quatrefoil frame has a pointed knop between each arch, in each external angle. The frame terminates in a circular suspension loop that is still held to the hinge of a fragment of plate by a cylindrical copper alloy pin. The plate has a recessed triangle which is incomplete as it runs from the base of the plate to the broken edge. The plate or mount would have been riveted to a strap of the horse harness.Read (2001) illustrates a similar hanging pendant on page 58, fig.37, no.469, which is dated from the 14th century
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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