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Record ID: WMID-7BCD8B
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete heraldic horse harness pendant of Medieval dating (AD 1200 to AD 1400).
The harness pendant is 'heater' shield shape, with a flat top and outward curving sides. The front has been decorated with a heraldic design depicting a lion rampart, facing left, with a double tail. It is on a blue background. It is unclear what colour the lion would have been (gold or silver). The remains of a suspension loop are present, set at right angles.
The heraldic description is: Azure a lion rampant queue forché or/argent
It weighs 11.39 g. It is 37.1…
Created on: Monday 29th January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 12th March 2024
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Record ID: WMID-7B8751
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Harness Pendant of the Medieval Period, dating from c. AD 1200 - c. AD 1400.
The pendant is a "heater" shield shaped type (flat top with sides sloping steeply to a point). On the flat edge is an integral suspension loop set at a right angle to the pendant, angled forwards. The suspension loop is incomplete, the loop is missing. The front face of the pendant shows moulded heraldic decoration, consisting of three diagonal lines running parallel to each other from the top left (as you view the object) to the bottom right. Depicted above the lines is a poss…
Created on: Monday 18th December 2017
Last updated: Monday 28th June 2021
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Record ID: WMID-322034
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy Harness Pendant with incomplete pendant hanger of the Medieval Period, dating from AD 1250 - AD 1400.
The pendant is "heater" shield-shaped type (with sides sloping steeply to a point at the base). On the flat edge is a integrally cast suspension loopp set at a right angle to the pendant angled forwards, the suspension loop is complete and has a suspension lug attached. The lug has a hemispherical body with a large integrally cast lug or rivet at the centre of the back face, the base of the body extends a double oval shaped lug that is pierced by an iron b…
Created on: Wednesday 13th May 2015
Last updated: Monday 23rd November 2020
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Record ID: WMID-08A2DE
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy harness pendant of the Medieval period, dating to AD 1200 - AD 1400.
The pendant is lozenge shaped in plan and sub rectangular in cross section. At the top of the artefact, there is a worn integral oval suspension loop (length: 13.3 mm; width: 7.5 mm; thickness/ depth: 3.03 mm, diameter of loop: 3.4) on the end of a rectangular sectioned shank set at a 90° angle to the main body of the pendant. The front of the pendant depicts, possibly, a two tailed, crowned lion rampant sinster (facing left). There is a lozenge shaped border surrounding the design. The…
Created on: Thursday 4th December 2014
Last updated: Friday 5th December 2014
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Record ID: WMID-90DFD2
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A corroded copper-alloy harness pendant of Medieval date, probably dating from the 13th to 14th century.
The pendant is shield-shaped and bears a heraldic device consisting of a lion rampant. The enamel is entirely missing, although tiny traces indicate that it may have originally been red. No traces of gilding survive, but if it was gilded the heraldic device could be described as Or a lion rampant gules (a red lion standing left over a gold background). The loop is set at 90 degrees to the top of the pendant. A harness suspension mount is still attached to the pendant at the top …
Created on: Tuesday 8th November 2011
Last updated: Friday 6th October 2017
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Record ID: WMID-CF1EF6
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval cast copper-alloy heraldic horse-harness pendant. Mass: 8.7g; length: 39.3mm; width: 23.8mm; depth: 6.4mm (suspension loop). Shield shaped with a suspension loop at its apex, at 90 degrees to the plane of the pendant.
The field of the pendant is divided into upper and lower portions: Upper - gules (red), three lions rampant, or (gold); lower - or (gold), vertically bisected by a reserved tapering cell with the remains of a ?crimson enamel.
In "The Medieval Horse and its Equipment" (2004, Clarke (ed.)), Griffiths (p62) states that pendants would have been suspended from ho…
Created on: Saturday 18th December 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 19th April 2011
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This findspot is known as 'Tong', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WMID-9641F0
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy medieval harness pendant. Mass: 3.5g; length: 31.7mm; width 21.9mm; measurement from front to reverse: 2.7mm (excluding the suspension loop). The pendant is sub-lozenge shaped in plan, with incomplete edges and an incomplete suspension loop at the top. The suspension loop is turned through 90 degrees to the orientation of the pendant. The front of the harness pendant has an off-white coloured enamelled field, strewn with small fleur-de-lis charges, with a lion rampant filling most of the lozenge. The off-white coloured enamel has become crazed. Only portions…
Created on: Tuesday 11th November 2008
Last updated: Monday 1st March 2021
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This findspot is known as 'Brewood', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WMID-D36E64
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper alloy heraldic horse harness pendant with possible enamel remains, dating from the 13th/ 14th century, between AD 1250 – 1400 (length: 33.5mm; width: 23.5mm; thickness at incomplete suspension loop: 4.5mm; weight: 6.4g).
The pendant is shield shaped in plan [Type I, as classified by Ward Perkins, J, B, 1940, 'London Museum Medieval Catalogue', page 118, fig 38] and flat in side section. At the top of the artefact, there are the stumped integral remains of what was probably a sub-circular suspension loop (length: 4mm; width: 2.5mm; thickness/ depth: 4.5mm) s…
Created on: Friday 29th September 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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This findspot is known as 'Albrighton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WMID-A7AB01
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy heraldic horse harness pendant with gilding and enamel, dating from the 13th/ 14th century, between AD 1250 – 1350 (length: 43mm; width: 26.5mm; thickness at suspension loop: 4.5mm; weight: 12.4g).
The pendant is shield shaped in plan [Type I, as classified by Ward Perkins, J, B, 1940, 'London Museum Medieval Catalogue', page 118, fig 38] and flat in side section. At the top of the artefact, there is an incomplete and integral sub-circular suspension loop (length: 9mm; width: 4.5mm; thickness/ depth: 4.5mm) set at a 90° angle to the main body of the …
Created on: Wednesday 27th September 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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This findspot is known as 'Tong', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WMID-0B2407
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper alloy harness pendant suspension plate (length: 27mm; width: 17mm; thickness: 6mm; weight: 5.5g) with a complete cast copper alloy horse harness pendant, both dating to the 13th/ 14th century AD (length: 40mm; width: 28mm; thickness at suspension/ attachment loop: 7mm; weight: 8.7g).
The suspension plate is lozengiform in shape with a flat side-section. At the top of the artefact, the front of the plate (length: 18mm; width: as above; thickness: 3mm) is decorated with a raised linear border around the outside edge (width: 2mm). There are nine raised pellets ev…
Created on: Friday 21st July 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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This findspot is known as 'Brewood', grid reference and parish protected.
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