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Description: | Silver gilt pendant fragment in the form of a fleur-de-lis, with missing suspension loop. The gilding extends from front to back. Overall height 10mm; max. width 11mm; weight 1.20g. The pendant has not undergone any cleaning or conservation. A similar fitting from Findon, West Sussex, has the form of a hanging flower head, probably a fleur-de-lis, and an integrally cast attachment loop at one end (length 17mm; TAR 2005/6, no. 698, attributed to the sixteenth century). It has been suggested that such items would have been worn on sleeves or other clothing, sewn into place. However, it may equally be one arm of a mount with four such branches, similar to a silver gilt example from Dillington, Somerset (attributed to the fifteenth century; TAR 2002, no. 117). The find is therefore either late fifteenth or sixteenth-century in date.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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