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Description: | A cast, copper alloy, medieval heraldic harness pendant, dating from AD 1200-1350. A heater shaped shield is on a rectangular pendant. The pendant is complete with its loop; although this is blocked with the rusted remains of a ferrous rivet. Much blue enamel remains. The metal finish is lost. A dull grey brown patina has replaced this. It measures 31.02mm long including the loop x 20.35mm wide x 2.30mm thick. The loop measures 11.45mm long x 4.57mm deep x 2,79mm thick. It weighs 4.29 gm.The heraldry is; Azure (blue), in dexter chief a lion passant guardant, probably crowned, in sinister chief and in base two pierced quatrefoils Or (gold). The spot of blue in the centre of the quatrefoil in the base of the shield confirms the piercing. The description on the Charles and St George's Rolls of Arms (both c.1285), for the arms as used by a Henry Turberville (or Truberville) gives pierced cinquefoils. The arms on the other 2 pendants and the 1 mount, on the Database seem to show sexfoils. The crown on the lion is not clear. The 1 pendant published by Cherry and the 1 published by Ashley seem to have cinquefoils, or sexfoils; but the crown on the lions is clear. See PUBLIC-9E9D87 for a further discussion of this, and references. The two published pendants are also rectangular, though of a slightly different style. This probably dates all three of them to say the second or third quarter of the thirteenth century, when heraldry was subject to variations. On this pendant the lion and the quatrefoils are not raised above the level of the background as is often the case; so their outlines can be made out as the areas surrounded by the blue enamel.The Turberville family at one time held a manor at Sherborne in Dorset; so it is interesting that this pendant was found at Frampton in Dorset, about 16 miles away.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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