Record ID: DOR-C133A7
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy harness pendant. The pendant has an approximately square central plate with integrally cast, flat lobes at all four corners and the midpoint of each of the sides (eight in total). The corner lobes are moulded, stylised fleurs de lys. The lobes along the sides are rectangular and undecorated. The upper one of these is slightly thicker and extends into the integrally cast suspension loop. The loop is damaged. It is set at a right angle to the plate and was originally rounded with a circular aperture. The plate has a design of a double-headed eagle displayed at th…
Created on: Tuesday 5th April 2022
Last updated: Thursday 21st April 2022
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Record ID: DOR-510218
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy harness pendant with a separate pendant frame. The pendant is an elaborated sexfoil with a large circular centre and six rounded lobes. At the top is a projecting suspension loop which attached the pendant into the sexfoil frame by means of an iron rivet. The frame has a rectangular box-like projection at the top and the loop of the pendant extends into it. The iron rivet passes through both sides of the box and suspension loop there is iron corrosion product around the loop and on the exterior of the box which has fixed the loop in to place so that it no longer articu…
Created on: Friday 5th November 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 17th November 2021
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Record ID: DOR-50FF3D
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy horse harness pendant and suspension mount. The pendant is enammelled and both the n=suspension mount and pendant are gilded. The pendant is shield-shaped with a suspension loop projecting from the centre of the upper, flat edge. The loop set at a right angle to the shield and is attached with a single, possibly iron rivet passing through the suspension loop and the two projecting pierced lobed of the T-shaped suspension mount. The suspension mount has a rectangular bar at the top from which the pierced lobes project. At the rear of this bar are two integral, circular s…
Created on: Friday 5th November 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 17th November 2021
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Record ID: DOR-50FD3C
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy harness pendant. The incomplete, elongated lozingiform plate is of thin sheet metal. It is undecorated on both faces The pendant has an integral suspension loop at the apex, set at right angles to the plate. There is a single circular hole at the centre of the plate. The one of the side angles is missing and the lower angle is damaged. Both faces are undecorated. Date: Medieval - c. 1200 - 1400 Dimensions: 54.28 mm x 24.89 mm x 7.08 mm Weight: 5.25 g Although of different shapes, there are several examples of harness pendants with sheet metal pl…
Created on: Friday 5th November 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 17th November 2021
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Record ID: DOR-2BE954
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete heraldic harness pendant. A shield shaped pendant with an incomplete suspension loop at the centre top.The front of the pendant is decorated with a blue enamelled lion (a lion rampant azure). The copper alloy is heavily pitted and corroded leaving the enamel proud of the surface. The rear is undecorated. Date: Medieval - c.1300 - 1400 Dimensions: 36.25 mm x 23.38 mm x 5.15 mm Weight: 6.12 g
Created on: Thursday 29th July 2021
Last updated: Thursday 28th October 2021
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Record ID: DOR-6CB146
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy harness pendant. A large sub-oval pendant with a flat, sheet plate and an offset pierced suspension loop at the top. The front of the plate is decorated with diagonal cross hatching and there are traces of gilding. There is some damage and distortion to the plate and loop. Date: Medieval - c.1200-1400 AD. Dimensions: 44.3 mm x 26.7 mm x 6.5 mm Weight: 5.06 g
Created on: Tuesday 20th July 2021
Last updated: Monday 15th November 2021
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Record ID: DOR-1CC940
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy harness pendant. The pendant is a quatrefoil plate with the broken integral suspension loop projecting from the outer edge of one of the foils. The front face of the plate is corroded, but is decorated with a relief design with enamelled recesses, The design is indistinct. There are traces of blue enamel and possible gilding.The rear face is heavily corroded and apparently undecorated. The suspension loop is set at a right angle to the plate and has been broken at the rear. Date: Medieval - c. 1280 - 1350 Dimensions: 28.8 mm x 21.7 mm x 3.6 mm Weight: …
Created on: Tuesday 22nd June 2021
Last updated: Saturday 10th July 2021
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Record ID: DOR-81B6F6
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy enamelled harness pendant. the pendant is a quatrefoil with an integral loop projecting from the upper foil. It is decorated with a raised, pointed, flat-topped shield with a moulded Roman cross with trefid ends. There is red enamel in the recesses around the cross. The foils flanking and at the top of the raised shield are decorated with moulded long-necked, long-tailed creatures, probably birds.The loop is oval with a small circular aperture. The rear is flat and undecorated. Date: Medieval - 1300 - 1400 Dimensions: 29.74 mm x 22.14 mm x 3.01 mm Weight: 5.82 g …
Created on: Wednesday 22nd July 2020
Last updated: Friday 12th March 2021
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Record ID: DOR-C4E992
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy harness pendant. It comprises a squared, quatre-lobed plate with an integral loop in the upper edge and a central circular hole. The plate is of sheet metal and has a domed lobe at each of the four corners, each hollowed at the rear (two lobes are complete and two are damaged). There is a small angled projection between the lobes on the lower edge and two sides. Between the lobes on the top edge is a triangular projection which extends into the oval suspension loop with a circular pierced hole. In the centre of the plate is a circular pierced hole. Date: M…
Created on: Tuesday 7th April 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 7th April 2020
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Record ID: DOR-C9B4B6
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy harness pendant. An oval plate with four rounded lobes projecting from the edge creating a quatrefoil (two of the lobes are broken). At the top is an integrally cast suspension loop which tapers from the plate to the top where the head is expanded at right angles to the plate into an oval loop with a large circular hole. At the centre of the plate is a sub-circular hole. There is no decoration visible on either face of the plate and there is extensive loss of the original surface. The central hole may have been for the attachment of a separate decorative ele…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd July 2019
Last updated: Thursday 4th July 2019
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Record ID: DOR-5A0BC8
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy horse harness pendant. The plate is trapezoidal in shape and has a circular hole pierced through it towards the lower edge. There are traces of possible decoration on one face, but the surface is too corroded to be certain of what this comprises. At the centre of the upper edge is a suspension loop with a small circular hole, two of the corners of the plate have been bent inwards. Date: Medieval - c. 1200 - 1400 Dimensions: 42.25 mm x 29.27 mm x 0.75 mm Weight: 5.44 g A similar harness pendant is recorded in database record SWYOR-32BA40
Created on: Monday 23rd July 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd July 2019
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Record ID: DOR-4EB789
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy, gilded harness pendant . The sexfoil pendant has a hexagonal central body with six trefoil shaped lobes projecting from the sides. The uppermost of these projections extends to form a suspension loop which is turned through 90° to the plane of the pendant. It has an oval, off centre perforation. The main body of the pendant bears a device of a three-leaved plant or tree. There is a central stem flanked by two smaller side stems, and each stem terminates with leaf or bud, decorated with a central vertical incised lines with several angled lines extending fr…
Created on: Sunday 23rd July 2017
Last updated: Monday 18th January 2021
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Record ID: DOR-35CA11
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy harness pendant. A circular plate with a pierced suspension loop at the top. The front of the plate is decorated with an incised design of three fish, a smaller fish in the centre, thead upwards, flanked by two larger fish, heads down. There are traces of possible gilding on the front. The rear of the plate is flat and undecorated. Date:Medieval - 1175 - 1400 Dmensions: 32.47 mm x 23.07 mm x 2.58 mm Weight: 7.57 g
Created on: Tuesday 4th April 2017
Last updated: Friday 16th February 2018
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Record ID: DOR-B92BB5
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy harness pendant in the form of an eagle displayed. The decorative detail is cast in relief on the front of the mount. The stylised bird's head is turned to the left and its wings are partially folded at its sides. The beak is curved and joins on to the top of the left wing creating circular aperture. The tail points downward and is flanked by its legs. Details of the feathers on the breast, tail, wings and tail have been picked out and there are traces of gilding on the front. The rear is flat and undecorated. Projecting from the head is a pierced suspension loop se…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd January 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 4th January 2017
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Record ID: DOR-A28142
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy heraldic harness pendant with enamel decoration. 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 broken transverse suspension loop. On the front, the field seems to have been devided vertically with traces of red on the left and white enamel on the right. The design appears to include a bird facing left, but the detail is not clear. Date: Medieval - c. 1200 - 1400 Dimensions: 42.3 mm x 25.1 mm x 5.3 mm Weight: 10.20 g
Created on: Friday 22nd April 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 4th October 2017
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Record ID: DOR-B1B176
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy heraldic harness pendant. A shield-shaped pendant with a pierced suspension loop at the top, still attached to a rectangular suspension mount. At the rear of the suspension mount are two integral, circular sectioned mounts with splayed ends.The suspension mount has two lugs housing the axis bar for suspension of the shield-shaped pendant.The front of the suspension mount is decorated with a slight ridge and retains traces of gilding on the front. There are traces of iron corrosion around the holes in the lugs, probably from an iron axis bar. The pendant is a po…
Created on: Wednesday 10th February 2016
Last updated: Monday 23rd November 2020
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Record ID: DOR-8A2868
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy probable harness pendant. The original shape of this pendant is not discernable but is most likely to have been lozengiform or triangular. What remains is angled to a point at the top where there is an offset rounded loop with a circular aperture. The sides are lobed producu=ing a scalloped outline. The front of the object is thickly gilded and decorated with a series of bosses with scrolling line decoration (with corresponding hollows at the rear of the pendant) and incised double stranded curvilinear and linear patterns. The decoration includes inter…
Created on: Wednesday 27th January 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 10th May 2016
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Record ID: DOR-995C02
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy harness pendant The sexfoil pendant has a hexagonal central plate with six trefoil shaped lobes projecting from the sides at each of the corners. One projection is slightly larger than the others and probably extended into the missing integral suspension loop. The plate is decorated with a central moulded design of a relief three stemmed plant (a central stem and two side stems) each stem terminating an an oval "leaf", the area around this retains traces of gilding. This is framed by an outer lozengiform reserve with a concentric recess inside containing alt…
Created on: Wednesday 18th March 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 21st April 2015
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Record ID: DOR-0D5A9E
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy heraldic harness pendant with enamel decoration. 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. On the front is moulded design of six lions divided into groups of three by a triple diagonal line with traces of blue enamel in the field, blazoned: azure a bend argent, cotised or between six lions rampant or. There is some damage to the left edge of the pendant. Date: Medieval - c. 1200 - 1400 Dimensions: 40.21 mmx x28.63 mm x 7.90 mm Weight:…
Created on: Monday 10th November 2014
Last updated: Friday 18th September 2020
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Record ID: DOR-45EBD3
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy probable harness pendant. A simple dished oval plate with an off-set oval suspension loop at the top. The fron is convex and the back is concave. Undecorated Date: Probably Medieval - c. 1250 - 1400. Dimensions: 25.79 mm x 15.35 mm x 5.21 mm Weight: 1.31 g
Created on: Wednesday 20th August 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 20th August 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tarrant Launceston', grid reference and parish protected.