Rights Holder: Leicestershire County Council
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Unique ID: LEIC-4745EE
Object type certainty: Certain
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Medieval copper alloy harness pendant, 43mm long, 27mm wide and 3mm thick with a weight of 9.76grams. The object is shield shaped with an integral suspension loop in the centre of its upper flat surface. It is decorated with an enamelled heraldic device, which has a red border, possibly with a pattern, but the enamel is badly damaged. Within this is a second border formed of rows of blue Vairs (a solid line with a row of rounded projections). In the centre is a triangular escutcheon of red enamel which is also damaged, but may just be showing the plantagaent lions passant?
William De Ferrers of Groby, Leicestershire (late 13th C.) has a similar device with a border of seven mascles, but no central escutcheon, so it could belong to this family?
p86. Foster, J. 'A dictionary of Heraldry' 1982.
Notes:
Arms: De Ferrers (possibly)
Class: heraldic
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1100
Date to: Circa AD 1400
Quantity: 1
Length: 43 mm
Width: 27 mm
Thickness: 3 mm
Weight: 9.76 g
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Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Enamel
Completeness: Complete
4 Figure: SK6218
Four figure Latitude: 52.75606231
Four figure longitude: -1.08277417
1:25K map: SK6218
1:10K map: SK61NW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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