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Description: | A cast, copper alloy, medieval, heraldic harness mount (stud) with enamel, dating from AD 1250-1400. It is a "heater shaped" shield (square topped shield with convex sides meeting in a point at the base), similar to "Museum of London Medieval Catalogue", 1940, page118, figure 38(I).It is complete with a shank projecting from the centre of the reverse. Some of the blue and red enamel remains. The metal finish is lost. There is a brown patina where the original finish is lost. It measures 15.52mm long x 12.50mm wide x 2.96mm thick. The shank is 8.59mm long x 3.53mm thick. It weighs 2.58 gm.The heraldry is; Paly of six, argent (silver) and azure (blue), a bend gules (red). As such it is either an early coat of arms of the Grandison family, for Otto or Piers; before they used differences on the bend. Or the differences could have been omitted because of the small scale of the mount. However the remaining red enamel suggests something may have been there. This would probably have been three escallops or (gold) for Otto or three eagles or (gold) for William or Piers. See PUBLIC-6B2E3 and PUBLIC-703FD3 on the database for further discussions of this.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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