Record ID: SF-7DBDA9
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy medieval harness pendant with suspension mount. The pendant is shaped like an eagle, wings folded and head turned left, although is now heavily corroded obscuring much of the details. A suspension loop projects from the apex of the bird's head, positioned at a right-angle to it. This loop sits between two parallel loops projecting from the lower edge of the mount and all three are covered with iron corrosion suggesting that they were secured by an iron pin originally. Above the the main body of the mount is small and rounded with a single a…
Created on: Wednesday 17th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 28th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elmswell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-7DAB83
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy medieval harness pendant. It is fleur-de-lis shaped, but the lower end and sides are now missing. The inner end of a suspension loop projects from the upper end, positioned at a right-angle to the rest of the pendant. Its outer end is now missing. The surface of the metal is corroded with a reddish brown patina and the breaks are well worn. A number of fleur de lis shaped pendants have been recorded with the PAS, including: SF-7CC176, BUC-40B457, BH-729B21, HAMP-3A8C51, WILT-637511, HAMP-FBEBB6. Harness pendants were primarily in use in the 13…
Created on: Wednesday 17th January 2024
Last updated: Monday 11th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elmswell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-8E1902
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete gilded copper-alloy medieval cruciform harness pendant with frame. Each end of the arms of the cruciform pendant is expanded, rounded and the outer face is decorated with cross-hatched engraved lines. In the centre of the outer face of the pendant is a small circular hole. The outer frame is quatrefoil in shape with a raised ridge projecting from the outer edge of each of the four corners between the lobes. Extending from the outer end of one of the lobes in a hollow rectangular section, which holds the suspension loop projecting at a right angle from one s…
Created on: Monday 6th November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mildenhall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-8FFCDE
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy medieval harness pendant. Only the upper part of the pendant survives. Currently this is crecentic in shape with a shorter arm projecting from the centre of the lower edge. There are breaks at the ends of the outer two arms, while the central, shorter one is complete and flares outwards at its outer end. The outer edge of the crescent is wavy and the inner part of a suspension loop projects from the centre, postioned at a right-angle to the pendant. The object is heavily worn and corroded obscuring any potential decoration, although faint grooves are visible …
Created on: Wednesday 25th October 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 5th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thorpe Morieaux', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-D00907
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy medieval cruciform harness pendant. The pendant is a small, rounded, equal-armed cross-shape with a small suspension loop projecting in the opposite plane from the centre of one arm. Its surface has a corroded brownish patina. Clark (1995, 67, fig.50, nos.67, 68 and 69) illustrates three cruciform pendants of different forms from excavations in London, one from a context dated c.AD 1270-c.1350, one from a context dated c.AD 1350-1400 and one from an undated context. Ashley (2002, fig.23, no.232) also illustrates a more elaboate, enamelled pendant of a s…
Created on: Monday 16th October 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 12th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Snape', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-CC9DF1
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete gilded and enamalled medieval heraldic harness pendant with suspension mount. The pendant itself is shield-shaped with a suspension loop projecting from the centre of the upper edge, the hole in its outer end positioned at a right-angle to the pendant. Its outer face is decorated with a swan with folded wings facing left. The mount consists of a small circular knop with a long, cylindrical attachment rivet projecting from the centre of its reverse. Two arms project from its lower end, each with a loop at its outer end. The loop of the pendant sits between these and iron corr…
Created on: Wednesday 16th August 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 6th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Creeting St Mary', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-B7183B
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete enamelled copper-alloy medieval heraldic harness pendant. The pendant is shield-shaped, its outer face decorated with three raised lions passant against a recessed field filled with traces of red enamel. An elongated suspension loop projects at a right-angle to the plane of the pendant from the centre of the upper edge. It is slightly bent out of shape in profile and the surface of the metal is heavily corroded. There is thinning of the metal at the upper end of the suspension loop, which may be the result of wear.  Harness pendants were in use from the twelfth to the …
Created on: Monday 22nd May 2023
Last updated: Monday 17th July 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mid-Suffolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-45684D
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete gilded copper-alloy harness pendant. The pendant is lozenge-shaped with a flattened suspension loop projecting at a right-angle from the upper corner. This loop is now slightly bent and is covered with iron corrosion. The outer face is decorated with the engraved design of a grotesque animal with the back quarters of a lion and a female human head in a head dress, which drapes down across its chest. Traces of gilding can be seen in places, but the majority of this is now missing. The surface of the metal is corroded in places. Harness pendants were in use fro…
Created on: Friday 17th March 2023
Last updated: Monday 6th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fressingfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-A56862
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete gilded copper-alloy medieval harness pendant frame. It is an rounded, quatrefoil loop shape with elaborately moulded inwards pointing chunky V-shapes positioned at each of the four joins between the lobes.The overall shape suggests that it was intended to accommodate a cruciform pendant (see PAS record F-A63AE3 for comparison). The outer face of each V-shape is decorated with a incised dot at its inner end and incised parallel lines at its outer end. A rectangular section, with a slot in the centre of its inner edge, projects from the centre …
Created on: Wednesday 1st February 2023
Last updated: Friday 25th August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Bury St Edmunds', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-910060
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy medieval harness pendant. The pendant section is sub-rectangular in shape, but there appears to be a straight break across the lower end suggesting that part is now missing. Faint traces of gilding and a raised design can be seen on the outer face, but this is heavily corroded. An incomplete suspension loop projects at a right-angle from the centre of the upper edge.  Without further diagnostic details it is difficult to assign anything other than a broad 12th to 14th century date.  Length: 20.75mm, width: 17.09mm, thickness: 1.21mm, weight: 2.05g
Created on: Tuesday 31st January 2023
Last updated: Friday 25th August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Framlingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-2589B1
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy medieval harness pendant. The pendant is square in shape with a short suspension loop projecting at a right-angle from the centre of its upper edge. There are faint traces of decoration on its outer face, but it is not clear whether this was enamelled originally. The surface of the metal is heavily corroded. Only a broad 12th to 14th century date can be suggested due to the lack of decoration.  Length: 34.43mm, width: 26.33mm, thickness: 5.88mm, weight: 5.33g
Created on: Thursday 26th January 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 9th May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Campsey Ash', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-258152
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete enamelled copper-alloy medieval harness pendant. It is lozenge-shaped with a short suspension loop projecting at a right-angle from one of the corners. The outer face is decorated with a raised cross patonce and the surrounded field contains traces of corroded red enamel. The surface of the metal is heavily corroded. Harness pendants were in use from the twelfth to the fourteenth century, with enamelled and heraldic types like this one predominating in the late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries (Griffiths 1995,62). Length: 33.62mm, width: 21.75mm, thickness: 5.…
Created on: Thursday 26th January 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 9th May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Campsey Ash', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-EB808E
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete gilded and enamelled copper-alloy shield-shaped harness pendant with in situ copper-alloy suspension mount. The pendant section is shield-shaped and has a flattened circular suspension loop projecting at a right-angle from the centre of the straight upper edge. Its outer face is decorated with a blue lion rampant facing to the left and faint traces of red enamel can be seen surrounding this. Both the metal and enamel are heavily pitted with corrosion, but traces of gilding can be seen in places. The mount is a flattened bar-shape with a slightly convex outer face. An integra…
Created on: Wednesday 11th January 2023
Last updated: Monday 22nd May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St. James, South Elmham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-D6BFA4
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete enamelled copper-alloy medieval harness pendant and suspension mount. The mount is quatrefoil-shaped and its outer face is decorated with an unclear, heavily corroded enamelled motif, probably a lion rampant against a red shield surrounded by a dark blue background. A long suspension loop projects from the centre of the upper edge positioned at a right-angle and is still attached to a simple suspension mount. The mount has a small hemispherical upper section from the lower end of which two arms project at a right-angle, the outer ends of each pierced with a…
Created on: Wednesday 5th October 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nettlestead', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-7CD30D
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy harness pendant of medieval date. It appears to have been sub-triangular with rounded corners originally, although is currently folded in half. Any decoration has been obscured by considerable corrosion. The remains of a suspension loop, positioned at a right-angle to the pendant, projects from the upper end of the object, its outer section now missing. The delicate construction and non-armorial design suggests a 12th or early 13th century date (Ashley 2002, 7, fig.7, nos.17 and 18). Clark (1995, 64, fig.47, no.57) illustrates a similar example from an ear…
Created on: Tuesday 26th April 2022
Last updated: Thursday 4th August 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Debenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-7CC176
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy medieval harness pendant. It is fleur-de-lis shaped with only the upper section surviving. Most of a suspension loop, positioned at a right-angle to the pendant, projects from the upper end. The surface of the metal is corroded and the breaks are well worn. A number of fleur de lis shaped pendants have been recorded with the PAS, including: BUC-40B457, BH-729B21, HAMP-3A8C51, WILT-637511, HAMP-FBEBB6, some with attached frames and hangers. Harness pendants were primarily in use in the 13th and 14th centuries AD.  Length: 30.11mm, width: 19.24mm, t…
Created on: Tuesday 26th April 2022
Last updated: Thursday 4th August 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Debenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-9FF66C
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete enamelled copper-alloy medieval quatrefoil harness pendant. The outer part of the lower left lobe is missing. The outer face is decorated with a central flower motif consisting of six circular petals, all missing their enamel, surrounded by a border of dark green enamel from which groups of three leaves project from each end and side in the same colour enamel, all against a background of dark blue enamel. Projecting from the centre of the upper edge of one lobe is a long lug with the remains of a small suspension loop at the terminal.  Enamelled …
Created on: Thursday 10th March 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 20th July 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sibton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-379FA6
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete enamelled copper-alloy medieval heraldic harness pendant. The pendant is shield shaped with a right-angled suspension loop projecting from the centre of the upper edge. The outer face is decorated with an enamalled heradic design of unknown individual - checky gules and ?, a fess azure with three unclear motifs. The surface of the metal is heavily corroded. Harness pendants were in use from the twelfth to the fourteenth century, with enamelled and heraldic types like this one predominating in the late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries (Griffiths, 1995,62). Leng…
Created on: Monday 21st February 2022
Last updated: Friday 18th March 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bedingfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-AC068E
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete enamelled copper-alloy medieval harness pendant. It is composed of a disc-shaped central section with eight leaf-shaped knops projecting at regular intervals around the edge. The outer face of the circular section is decorated with a central raised circle containing a cross in its centre and surrounded a ring of diagonal raised lines. Traces of red enamel can be seen between these latter diagonal lines, while traces of blue enamel are visible within the central cross. Faint traces of enamel are also visible within the outer faces of the knops. A small circular suspension lo…
Created on: Friday 23rd July 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 7th September 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bacton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-DCCF0A
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy medieval harness pendant and suspension mount. The pendant is shaped like an equal-armed cross with a hole through the centre within which a separate in situ copper-alloy rivet was found. A long suspension loop projects from its upper end positioned at a right-angle. It is bent out of shape and cracked at one side. The suspension mount is incomplete with only the semi-circular lower half surviving, part of a central hole visible within the break. From the lower edge of this two parallel arms project, still holding the suspension loop of the pendant. The surf…
Created on: Thursday 1st July 2021
Last updated: Monday 4th October 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lidgate', grid reference and parish protected.