Record ID: NMS-AB34DA
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy horse harness pendant, shield-shaped, suspension-loop broken. Blue enamel and traces of gilding survive. Blazon: Azure a bend cotised between six lions rampant to sinister Or. BOHUN, de, Earls of Hereford and Essex. Height 42mm. Width 27mm. Late 13th-14th century.
Created on: Thursday 2nd May 2019
Last updated: Thursday 17th September 2020
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Record ID: NMS-9B2D5C
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Worn and corroded medieval copper alloy horse harness pendant, shield-shaped, suspension-loop at apex. Red and blue enamel and traces of gilding. Blazon: Per pale Azure and Gules a lion rampant ermine. Height 43.5mm. Width 25mm. Probably the arms of the family of NORWICH, Per pale Azure and Gules a lion rampant ermine or Per pale Gules and Azure a lion rampant ermine (Chesshyre and Woodcock (1992), p.158) and Rye (1913) pp. 622-3. Later 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Wednesday 1st May 2019
Last updated: Saturday 13th November 2021
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Record ID: LEIC-5EE38B
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Rutland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy harness pendant, 33mm in length, 22mm wide and 4mm thick with a weight of 4.07grams. The object is is shield shaped and is very worn. It has the remains of a centrally placed suspension loop in its upper surface. The face is extremely worn, but may show the faint trace of a lion rampant in worn off enamel.
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2019
Last updated: Monday 29th April 2019
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Record ID: LEIC-C59E47
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy harness pendant, 45mm in length, 29mm wide and 2mm thick with a weight of 9.23grams. The pendant has a flat upper surface with an integral transverse ovoid suspension loop (now incomplete). It has tapering curved sides which terminate in a point and it is rectangular in cross section. It has an heraldic design featuring a diagonal stripe formed of three thin lines. To each side of this the field is decorated with debased lions rampant. The upper right has three in a triangle formation, the lower left has three in a row. These are listed as the arms of s…
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2019
Last updated: Thursday 17th September 2020
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Record ID: NLM-0AD890
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy harness pendant. Cast heater-shield-shaped plate with an oval loop at right angles to its display plane. The shield is charged with a lion rampant left. The red lion badge may refer to the Mowbray family, who were prominent landowners in Lincolnshire; two examples of the lion rampant gules [red] on a [gold, or probably as in this case untinted polished copper alloy] field or are also associated with the Fellbrigg family of Felbrigg, Norfolk by Steve Ashley (Ashley 2002, nos. 161 and 146). Suggested date: Medieval, 1250-1325 Height: 36.5mm, Width: 20.8mm, Thickness (p…
Created on: Tuesday 19th March 2019
Last updated: Thursday 21st January 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Gainsborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NARC-6A1208
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Harness Pendant of Medieval date (AD 1350-1400). The object is composed a slightly convex shield with an integral suspension loop, broken and abraded and now forming a tapered spur. The device comprises a design of six lions divided into groups of three by a triple diagonal line with traces of gilding on the linear division. (blazoned: azure a bend argent, cotised or between six lions rampant or). The back of the object is undecorated. These are likely the arms of the De Bohun family, Earls of Hereford and Essex and were bourne by several members of the…
Created on: Wednesday 27th February 2019
Last updated: Friday 18th September 2020
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Record ID: NMS-EFC637
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy horse harness pendant, shield-shaped, worn and corroded with internally worn suspension-loop. Fragments of gilding and red enamel survive. Or a lion rampant Gules. Possibly for FELBRIGG, of Felbrigg, Norfolk (DBA I, Chesshyre and Woodcock (1992) 135). Height 41.5mm. Width 25mm. Later 13th-14th century.
Created on: Monday 28th January 2019
Last updated: Thursday 12th December 2019
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Record ID: WAW-ED7109
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval (late 12th to 13th centuries) harness pendant: the copper alloy pendant is a shield shape with an integral elongated lug protruding from the centre of the upper edge. The lug tip has an incomplete perforation which is perpendicular to the pendant. The outer face of the pendant is decorated with a lion rampant within a red enamel field. The reverse of the pendant is undecorated. The surface is abraded and has red copper corrosion. The pendant measures 35.21mm in length, 23.36mm in width and weighs 6.88g. Medieval harness pendant, which were popular between the 12th an…
Created on: Monday 28th January 2019
Last updated: Monday 28th January 2019
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Record ID: SUR-CE3543
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval copper alloy harness pendant in the form of a slightly convex shield with a round suspension loop which has broken. The device comprises a design of six lions divided into groups of three by a triple diagonal line with traces of raised blue enamel in the field. (blazoned: azure a bend argent, cotised or between six lions rampant or.). Late 14th century.
Created on: Wednesday 2nd January 2019
Last updated: Friday 25th September 2020
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Record ID: NMS-BF4181
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval copper alloy harness fitting, shield-shaped with a straight break on one side, probably part of a rotating vertical 'banner', and a vertical split across a secondary rectangular perforation (evidence of re-use) near the upper edge. One face has worn decoration with traces of possible black enamel: [?Or/?Argent] crusily fitchy alion rampant to sinister Sable, the other face with worn traces of similar decoration with the lion facing the other way (both lions face the missing upright): [?Or/?Argent] crusily fitchy a lion rampant to sinister. The arms are likely to be…
Created on: Monday 26th November 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 30th June 2020
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Record ID: NMS-E8FFB5
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy horse harness pendant, shield-shaped, bent, corroded and with break at upper edge where the suspension-loop is missing. The (blue) enamel and the surface treatment of the metal are missing. Blazon: [Azure] a bend cotised between six lions rampant [Or]. BOHUN, de, Earls of Hereford and Essex. Extant height 34.5mm. Width 29mm. 2.2mm thick. Late 13th-14th century.
Created on: Friday 16th November 2018
Last updated: Thursday 17th September 2020
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Record ID: KENT-5F1A72
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete and worn Medieval gilt copper-alloy heraldic harness pendant (c. 1200-1400). Description: The pendant is in the form of a square topped shield with a suspension loop at 90° to the plane of the pendant. The loop is incomplete, probably due to wear. The device is very simple being a Lion rampant (rearing on back legs and facing left) and has been cast in prominant relief. The front is heavily gilded and even on the most pronounced parts show heavy gilding. The pendant is patinated brown where the gilding isn't adhering. Measurements: 23.39mm long, 14.34mm wide, 3.22…
Created on: Thursday 4th October 2018
Last updated: Friday 5th October 2018
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Record ID: NLM-39F247
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy harness pendant. Cast heater shield-shaped plate with an oval suspension loop at right angles to its display plane. The shield is charged with a lion rampant left against an enamelled field of an indeterminate tint, either black [sable] or dark blue [azure]; the tail of the lion may be forked. The colour of the lion, which was presumably a metal [i.e. silver/argent or gold/or] is uncertain. The lion or leopard [in or] was associated with England from the 13th century onwards, and [in argent] later with the Dukes of Norfolk. The loop is now open at its top. Suggested date:…
Created on: Thursday 20th September 2018
Last updated: Thursday 22nd April 2021
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Record ID: HESH-937F3C
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy heraldic harness pendant and associated suspension mount / stud of probable 14th-century (c.AD 1250 - c.1450) date. The pendant is complete and well preserved - however it has lost much of its inlaid enamel and gilded surface. In plan the pendant is sub-triangular (shield shaped) and the edges of the front face are faceted but distorted. In cross section the pendant is sub-rectangular. An integral cast suspension loop is present on the upper edge of the pendant; this is set at an angle of 90 degrees to the plane of the pendant. The pierced loop is complete and fixed …
Created on: Wednesday 12th September 2018
Last updated: Monday 21st September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brampton Bryan', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-7969A5
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval gilt copper alloy horse harness pendant, shield-shaped, suspension loop broken. Traces of gilding and blue enamel survive on the faces. Blazon: Azure a bend cotised between six lions rampant Or. BOHUN, de, Earls of Hereford and Essex. Height 36mm. Width 23.5mm. Late 13th-14th century.
Created on: Tuesday 11th September 2018
Last updated: Thursday 17th September 2020
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Record ID: PUBLIC-94EA55
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn complete copper-alloy Heraldic shield-shaped pendant of Medieval date. The object has a shield shaped upper face with an heraldic device of three lions rampant couchant. It has knops around the shield one at the point of the shield , one at each shoulder. On one edge there is a knop between those at shoulder and the point. It looks as though the matching knop on the other side has broken off. There is a trace of gilding. The reverse of the object is concave. Width at widest point Width at widest point 26mm, length 27mm, weight 7.33g.
Created on: Friday 31st August 2018
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2019
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Record ID: DEV-049108
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval cast copper alloy heraldic harness pendant. The pendant is shield shaped with a straight top and convex sides which meet at a point at the bottom. From the middle of the top edge projects a transverse suspension loop the back of the loop is missing from an old, worn, break. On the front is moulded design of six lions divided into groups of three by a triple diagonal line, the outer lines and lions containing traces of gilding and probably with traces of blue enamel in the field. This design is blazoned: azure a bend argent, cotised or, between six lions rampant or. Length: 38…
Created on: Tuesday 31st July 2018
Last updated: Friday 18th September 2020
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Record ID: NMS-7DEA6A
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete and abraded medieval copper alloy shield-shaped horse harness pendant with all of the suspension loop missing. Discoloured greenish enamel inlay remains but all the metal coating has been lost. Blazon: ?Or/?Argent a lion rampant crowned [?]. Extant height 33mm. Width 27mm. 2mm thick. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Wednesday 6th June 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 17th February 2021
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Record ID: PUBLIC-4CBB35
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval copper alloy harness pendant. The pendant is shield shaped and has an incomplete loop at the top. The coat of Arms on this pendant is extremely worn away but is probably from the de Bohun family. It features a bend, from the top left, split into three sections. There is a lion rampant at the top centre as well as another feature to the lion's right which is unclear. There are also two diagonal lions on the bottom left, under the bend.
Created on: Wednesday 4th April 2018
Last updated: Friday 18th September 2020
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Record ID: SWYOR-EA1DC4
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete, shield shaped, copper alloy harness pendant dating from the Medieval period, AD 1200 - 1400. The heraldic design is of a lion rampant on a field of enamel, but the original colours are lost. There is a flat, integral suspension arm, pierced with a circular hole at the upper end, set at right angles to the plane of the body. The pendant is 28.5mm long, 16mm wide and 5.3mm thick. It weighs 3.36gm.
Created on: Tuesday 6th March 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 8th May 2018
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