Record ID: WILT-FFE234
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy, enamel and (once) gilded and silvered armorial shield-shaped horse harness pendant, measuring 48.92x29.21mm and weighing 15.45g. Almost all the enamel is missing and the loop (which is turned through 90°) is twisted and squashed. The shield itself is 36.02mm in length. It depicts the Arms of Hugh Despencer the Younger, born 1287 and died 1326, with the Blazon: Quarterly argent and gules fretty or with a label of three points, over all a bend sable. He would not have received the Arms until he was knighted in 1306. Traces of red enamel survive but all traces of …
Created on: Friday 29th May 2009
Last updated: Thursday 13th May 2021
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Record ID: WILT-D3A593
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete (Late Medieval)/ Early Post-Medieval openwork copper alloy sword or dagger chape, missing its backplate. It measures 50.3x35.2mm and weighs 9.7g. The chape is roughly triangular in shape, with one long edge curving. The short (open) end is diagonal and also slightly curving. The sides of the chape are angled slightly outwards also. That on the straight edge is higher than the curving edge. The chape 'stands' 6.2mm high. At the 'point' of the triangle is a rounded knop, flat on the reverse. To the front a rib follows the curving diagonal line of the open end. In the top thir…
Created on: Wednesday 26th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 13th May 2021
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Record ID: WILT-D35194
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete medieval copper alloy and enamelled (and probably once gilded) heraldic 'heater' shield-shaped horse harness pendant, measuring 44.38x28.19x8.89mm and weighing 13.3g. The loop is damaged and broken, and much of the red enamel (and possible gilding) is missing. There appears to be a patch of iron corrosion at the centre of the decorated side. The blazon reads: Quarterly: 1 and 4 (metal); 2 and 3 gules fretty (metal); overall a bendlet (colour). The heraldry may belong to Hugh le Despenser, First Earl of Winchester (1262-1326). In the St Georges roll he has "Quar…
Created on: Wednesday 24th November 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 12th May 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Erlestoke', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-FBCD96
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete medieval (1260-1500) copper alloy heraldic shield shaped Harness Mount 'Chequy', missing one corner, all of its enamel and gilded or silvering decoration, and most of the integral attachment spike. It measures 37.50x28.71x3.85mm and weighs 11.02g. The mount is 2.13mm thick and decorated with 6 rows of alternating squares in a checkerboard patter. The raised squares would have been gilded or silvered (Or or Argent) and the slightly recessed areas would have been filled with a coloured enamel. To the reverse only a worn stump of the original projection survives, …
Created on: Friday 27th May 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 12th May 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tisbury', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS579
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Ae horse harness pendant, elaborate quatrefoil, very corroded, black enamel and tiny fragment of gilding survive, suspension-loop broken. Blazon: Sable a cross engrailed Or. UFFORD, Robert de, of Ufford, Suffolk, justice of Chester 1276 and 1277, held Orford Castle and many lands Suffolk, d.1298, leaving s. and h. Robert, a minor, d.1316, leaving s. and h. Robert, created Earl of Suffolk 1337, d.1369 who sealed with same arms. Ae suspension-mount for horse harness pendant, cruciform with broken suspension-loops at base, sub-triangular sectioned arms with concave mouldings at terminals…
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Wednesday 12th May 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COLBY', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS1830
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
MED Ae horse harness pendant, decayed with broken suspension loop, traces of discoloured and decayed enamel (black) and red discolouration where the enamel is missing (copper-oxide produced as a result of the enamelling process), blazon: [?Sable] cross engrailed Or. ?UFFORD, Robert de, of Suff. Justice of Chester 1276 and 1277, held Orford Castle and many lands Suff., d. 1298, leaving s. and h. Robert (created earl of Suffolk, 1337, d. 1369, who sealed with same arms, temp. Edward III (Brault 1997, 428).
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Wednesday 12th May 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'TACOLNESTON', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS924
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
MED Ae horse harness pendant, small, shield-shaped, worn and corroded, point of shield missing, remains of iron pin in suspension-loop, black enamel and small traces of gilding, Or a cross indented Sable. Arms of UFFORD, Robert de, of Ufford, Suff., justice of Chester 1276 and 1277, held Orford Castle and many lands in Suff., d.1298 (leaving s. and h. Robert, a minor, d.1316, leaving s. and h. Robert, created earl of Suffolk 1337, d.1369, Brault 1997, 428). Robert GIFFARD and John de MOHUN are also recorded as having used these arms.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Wednesday 12th May 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORTH TUDDENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-AE5C02
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete medieval (1250-1500) copper alloy enamelled lozenge-shaped heraldic horse harness pendant, with a broken loop and missing probable gilding (or silvering). It is blazoned bend azure on engrailed cross gules impaling three bends gules, and is probably the arms for a marriage (Laura Burnett pers.comm. 2012) . The original surface has been lost (with gilding or silvering), leaving the enamel decoration standing proud of the present surface. It measures 43.44x30.05x6.67mm and weighs 11.81g. Excluding the loop it measures 33.39mm long and 2.94mm thick. There is a pos…
Created on: Monday 9th July 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 11th May 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Breamore', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-196765
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy gilt and enameled horse harness pendant and gilt harness pendant suspension mount, together measuring 47.51mm in length and weighing 6.42g. While traces of the gilding remain, only a tiny speck of red enamel has. The pendant suspension mount consists of a single arm 27.35x7.34mm and triangular in section (max.3.91mm), with a split cylindrical projection at one end 5.4mm in diameter. This is for the pendant, which has now corroded into place on the axis bar. Just above is a transverse rib through which is a rivet hole 2.6mm in diameter and now filled with a white …
Created on: Monday 16th November 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 11th May 2021
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Record ID: WILT-83CFF4
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy harness pendant, missing much of its enamel inlay. In shape it is a quatrefoil with a square overlaid. It is 33mm in length (including the loop, which is turned through 90°) and 25mm wide. It weighs 6.83g. At the centre of the quatrefoil is a square, 11x11mm, creating four semi-circular areas, each decorated with a lis at its centre. At the centre of the square is a lion walking left. From each corner of the central square a smaller square 2x2mm projects, with remains of enamel as its innards. The two outside edges of each of these form the overlaid square. …
Created on: Wednesday 16th March 2005
Last updated: Monday 10th May 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Box', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS2032
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
MED Ae horse harness pendant, quatrefoil, elongated and slightly bent suspension-loop, metal very corroded. Blazon: Gules a lion passant guardant Or (on a square field from each side of which springs a fleur-de-lis Or into each foil Azure). ?Allusive for ENGLAND and FRANCE. Cf. similar examples in Ashley 2002, 23 and fig.21, 208-13. 14th century.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Monday 10th May 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'HEVINGHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-AC0CC6
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval copper alloy harness pendant suspension mount, complete with harness pendant corroded in place (at an angle). The harness pendant retains much of its enamel decoration but has lost all traces of gilding. The object measures 38.80mm in length, and if the pendant were to hang straight would be c.43mm long. The object weighs 9.45g. The suspension mount (14.40mm in depth) consists of a squarish globular stud 6.27mm wide with an integral square-sectioned projection behind (3.62x4.85mm, narrowing to 2.87x3.13mm and expending again at the end to 3.19x4.49mm). Below are two D-…
Created on: Friday 27th April 2012
Last updated: Monday 10th May 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Marlborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-491355
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval copper alloy enamelled and gilded square mount from horse harness. The enamelling is in an exceptional condition. The edges of the square are flanked with a line of gilding, just inside which there are four 2mm diameter piercings, one in each corner and with traces of gilding around their edges. In the centre of the mount is a sunken circular area, outlined in gilding and filled with a light blue enamel. At the centre of this is a cross defined in copper alloy and filled with red enamelling. From each arm of the cross three c.2mm long lines extend, each one with a circle or o…
Created on: Monday 8th December 2003
Last updated: Tuesday 20th April 2021
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Record ID: WILT-756907
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete medieval copper alloy and enamel shield-shaped mount displaying the arms of England: Gules three lions passant guardant [Or]. It is in an advanced state of corrosion and is missing much of the copper alloy surface, which was probably originally gilded. It is also missing part of one corner. It measures 68.06x53.59x2.14mm and weighs 25.9g. the max.width would have originally been c.55mm. The red enamel largely survives. The reverse of the mount, also in an advanced state of corrosion, shows no signs of a fixing mechanism. The edges of the mount are badly worn. T…
Created on: Tuesday 14th June 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 20th April 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chippenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS136
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
AE horse harness stud, elaborate quatrefoil, shank on reverse, decorated with red enamel and traces of gilding. Blazon: Gules a W ensigned by a crown Or. DRAWN. Prob. 14th-/15th century.
Created on: Wednesday 28th February 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 20th April 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK LEZIATE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-EB9521
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval copper alloy shield-shaped horse harness pendant displaying the Arms of England with a blue label of three points, denoting an elder son. It measures 41.2x24x1.8mm and weighs 7.47g. Approximately half the loop is missing (old break) and one edge of the pendant is slightly damaged. All enamel is missing and most of the gilding. The shield is 31mm in height and displays three lions passant guardant. The top lion has three vertical lines running through it (which denote the elder son). A tiny speck of gilding is visible at the base of the loop. The background behind t…
Created on: Tuesday 12th June 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 14th April 2021
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Record ID: WILT-7F2DA8
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy armorial harness pendant displaying the arms of England before 1340 (enamel lost, though traces of gilding survive) on a background of red enamel. Blazon: Gules three lions passant guardant Or. The pendant measures max.28.7mm wide and is 44.7mm long (excluding loop, 35mm long). It weighs 12.28g. The loop is turned through 90° and slightly damaged at its top edge. The copper alloy has lost its original patina. The use of enamel suggests a date from c.1270, to 1340.
Created on: Thursday 7th December 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 14th April 2021
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Record ID: WILT-8FBBD7
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy harness pendant now very worn and bent with broken loop and missing all its original patina. Just discernable are the arms of England, three lions. These would have been gilded and on a red enamel background (no trace of these survive). Measures 45x39.4x1.1mm and weighs 6.72g. 1270-1340 AD.
Created on: Thursday 26th January 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 14th April 2021
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Record ID: WILT-465533
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small copper alloy medieval heraldic harness pendant with traces of red enamel in situ. The loop is turned through 90° and the pendant 'shield' shaped. It depicts the Arms of England before 1340, three lions passant guardant on a red background. The pendant is rather worn and a little bent. No original patina remains. The shield measures 20x15.5, the entire length including the loop being 27.5mm. It weighs 2.78g. Nick Griffiths comments, "the enamel suggests a date between c.1270 and 1340".
Created on: Friday 13th May 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 14th April 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Knook', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-EAC242
Object type: PENCIL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval lead pencil or writing lead, body slightly squashed and cracked, rectangular in section, max. thickness 9mm. Width 15mm at widest place. Point has been worked to make round in section, workings clearly visible. Length 76mm. Another example from a 13th century context is documented in Biddle 1990, p.746, no.2313.
Created on: Wednesday 23rd July 2003
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd March 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Weybourne', grid reference and parish protected.