Record ID: NLM-53A0B2
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy harness pendant, as kindly identified by the finder. Cast lozengiform plate with an oval top loop at right angles to its display plane. The surface is crazed and the object slightly curled overall, perhaps both effects arising from the exposure of the object to intense heat. Despite this damage, the ghost of a border to a motif is discernible. Suggested date: Medieval, 1300-1400 Length: 45.7mm, Width: 34mm, Thickness (plate): 2mm, Weight: 9.32gms
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gayton le Wold', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-536115
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gilded copper alloy harness pendant dating from the Medieval period, about AD 1200 - 1400. The pendant is flat and shield-shaped with a flat top that has curved sides, tapering to a point. A circular loop, rectangular in cross-section, projects from the flat top edge. One side is decorated with an incised drop-shape design and a central rectilinear band delineated by grooves. Both sides of the band have parallel designs of curvilinear motifs, with the upper motif carrying scaled lentoid pattern. Gilding mainly over the front surface and traces on the reverse…
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 11th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Friskney', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-5349D2
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy heraldic harness pendant dating from the Medieval period, about AD 1200 - 1400. The pendant is hexagonal with six projections, five of which terminate with trefoils. The top arm expands and is bificated from which projects a loop that is rectangular in cross-section and has a raised collar. The loop is circular. The hexagonal plate is decorated with two enamelled halves: one red and one blue. The decoration is very worn and undecipherable. There are traces of gilding on the plate. The reverse is flat. Dark green patina. Length: 38.98 mm; Width: 27.10 mm;…
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 11th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thorpe St. Peter', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-532D1C
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy harness pendant hanger dating from the Medieval period, about AD 1200 - 1400. The hanger is D-shaped in cross-section and has a central sexfoil plate decorated with three raised flower, stems or branches terminating with a lobed head, possibly a quatrefoil but the pattern is very worn. Surrounding the stems are traces of red enamel. The plate has two plates projecting from two sides: one is broadly rectilinear with a rounded end with elongated rectangular knop at the terminal. A rivet hole, missing its rivet, sits centrally in the roun…
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thorpe St. Peter', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-5238B0
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy harness pendant of Medieval date. It is an armorial badge, depicting a lion standing, with a tail that could form two rivet-holes (Ashley, 2004, pg 23). The suspension loop is incomplete. Similar examples have been found on PAS see KENT-C209C5, KENT-C1F847, and in Ashley, 2004, pg 26. Height: 24.97mm Width: 14.92mm Weight: 2.76g
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Combs', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-511375
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy two-part harness pendant, medieval and circa 1300-1500 century in date, consisting of an outer pendant frame and a solid inner pendant. The outer pendant frame is quartrefoil in shape with a suspension loop set at right angles to the plane of the pendant. The suspension loop is at the terminal of a two parallel rectangular shafts, which projects from the top of the middle of one of the quartrefoils. The outer pendant measures 50.33mm in length and 40.12mm in width. It has post-depositional damage, and is mis-shapen. The inner pendant is also a quartrefoil, eac…
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Debenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-500EEB
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gilded, cast copper alloy suspension mount for a medieval harness pendant. The plate is square, 15.5mm wide and has moulded decoration in relief, comprising a central roundel containing a double headed eagle, displayed. This roundel is set against a field of pellets, with four pellet-in-annulets bordering at the cardinal points and moulded rosettes around a rivet hole in each corner of the plate. The lower edge of the plate has a double-lugged suspension fitting made from an elongation projection with a rectangular slot which is bent around a copper alloy spindle and fixed to the rea…
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
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Record ID: SF-412698
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Medieval harness pendant. It is escallop in shape, and therefore likely to be religious as a shell is a common badge of pilgrimage and have been found in late twelfth0centruy contexts in East Anglia (Ashley, 2002, p 26). There is evidence of gilding on the front of the pendant, and in the centre is a globular headed rivet. There is stamped decoration visible, depicting the scallops of the shell. A similar example can be seen in Ashley, 2002, p26, fig 25, 4). Length: 26.07mm Width: 32.52mm Weight: 5.65g
Created on: Monday 8th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Combs', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-40003D
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Medieval harness pendant. It is very worn and corroded, with decayed enamel remaining. The pendant is shield shaped with the remains of blue enamel visible. The suspension loop is incomplete. The design is not clear, but it appears to be a lion. Pendants with enamelled decoration, usually heraldic, seem to be most common in the late 13th and first half of the 14th century, c. 1280-1350 (Griffiths 1986, 1; Ashley 2002, 29-30; Baker 2015, 6). They can be a variety of shapes, but shield-shaped (with straight top and sides curving to a point) and l…
Created on: Monday 8th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 8th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Combs', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DUR-3E78D8
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete enamelled copper alloy heraldic horse harness pendant of Medieval date (1200-1400 AD). The shape of the pendant is a heater shield with a suspenion loop at right angles in the centre of the top edge. The front face is decorated with three roundels in the chief, followed by two bars (one in the centre and one in the bottom third). This decoration is formed by red enamel in shaped recesses. The rest of the pendant will have been guilded, as evidenced by some small remnants on the otherwise undecorated reverse side. It weighs 10.8g. It measures 47.6mm long by 27.1mm wide, and…
Created on: Monday 8th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
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Record ID: WMID-D609FD
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete enamelled copper alloy heraldic horse harness pendant of medieval dating (c. AD 1250 to c. AD 1450). The pendant is of the 'heater'-shaped shield type (a flat top, with sides that curve steeply to a point). Attached to the flat top is an incomplete stump for the missing suspension loop and is set at a right angle to the rest of the pendant. The front of the pendant features heraldic decoration. This decoration consists of a thick central border running from left to right. Above the border are three saltires in a horizontal line…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 11th April 2024
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Record ID: SF-BE1EA6
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy heraldic harness pendant of Mediaeval date (post-c.1198 to 1340).  It is shield-shaped (with straight top and sides curving to a point), and depicts the arms of England, Gules three lions passant guardant Or, with the remains of red enamel in the recessed field.  An elongated suspension loop projects at a right-angle to the plane of the pendant from the centre of the upper edge. Harness pendants were in use from the twelfth to the fourteenth century, with enamelled and heraldic types predominating in the late thirteenth and fourteenth …
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Iken', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-592631
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Medieval harness pendant. It is very worn, and consists of the harness suspension mount with hinge and pendant. Although worn, it appears to have been sextagonal in shape, and retains inlaid enamel of red and blue alternating in triangular shapes, thinning to the central rivet. There is evidence of white metal coating.  Length: 34.37mm Diameter of pendant: 18.73mm Weight: 7.03g
Created on: Thursday 28th March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 28th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wickham Skeith', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-2BEB91
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probable Medieval copper-alloy harness pendant dating to circa AD 1200-1400. Plano-convex in section, the piece consists of five - broadly tear-shaped - lobes representing petals arranged in a 2-2-1 formation. At the apex is a transverse projecting collar set below a D-shaped suspension lug. The reverse is plain. The front face retains significant traces of gilding. It has a brown-green patina.  No precise parallel can be found on the database. The gilding would suggest a Medieval date although the patina could potentially suggest a Post Medieval date.  Length: 30.9m…
Created on: Tuesday 26th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 26th March 2024
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Record ID: SF-2BC0B3
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy Medieval enamelled harness pendant. It is quatrefoil in shape, the outer edge conprising four rounded lobes, each with a small projection between. The outer face of each lobe is decorated with three raised petals as in the upper section of a fleur-de-lis. In the centre of the outer face there is a square linear border surrounding a raised lion en passant. The remains of red and black enamel can be seen in places alongside small traces of gilding. A suspension loop projects from the centre of the upper edge.  Harness penda…
Created on: Tuesday 26th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 26th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Badwell Ash', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NARC-C33FB7
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy Harness pendant of Medieval date (AD 1200-1400). The object is cross-shaped in plan and D shaped in section. The upper arm is elongated to for a suspension loop, which is narrowed and set at a right angle to plane of the pendant. The loop retains a small section of iron from the axis bar. The object has curved and expanded inner angles and a swelling to the end of each terminus. Length: 41.20mm, Width: 33.79mm, Thickness: 4.76mm, Weight: 9.0g The metal is green in colour with a slightly pitted patina.
Created on: Thursday 21st March 2024
Last updated: Friday 5th April 2024
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Record ID: NARC-AC6538
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy harness pendant of Medieval date (AD 1200-1400). The object has a 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 lobe extends into the integrally cast suspension loop. The loop is set at a right angle to the plate with a circular aperture. The lower lobe has a central circular perforation. The central plate has a heraldic design c…
Created on: Wednesday 20th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 27th March 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-AC0CA8
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A incomplete Medieval cast copper-alloy enamelled heraldic harness pendant dating to c. AD 1300-1400. The pendant is shield shaped, comprising a flat topped shield (heater) with an integral pierced suspension loop set at 90°s to the plate. The upper surface of the plate is decorated in cast relief with a triad of three robust scallop shells, two above and one below. There are no traces of enamelling surviving within the recessed background field. The reverse of the plate is plain and undecorated with a slightly raised vertical rib running from the bas…
Created on: Wednesday 20th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 16th April 2024
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Record ID: BERK-AB885B
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The pendant is quatrefoil in plan with an integral suspension loop projecting centrally from the upper edge. The loop is set at 90 degrees to the plate with a transverse circular perforation. The front of the pendant bears a heraldic device featuring three crowns within a recessed field. No enamel is retained.
Created on: Wednesday 20th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
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Record ID: SWYOR-AAFB09
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy quatrefoil armorial harness pendant of Medieval date, about AD 1340- 1400. The pendant is quatrefoil with projecting points in the spandrels. In the centre is a square of red enamel with a lion passant facing left. The lobes are each filled with with a fleur de lis. There is a suspension loop extending at the top, at right angles to the plane of the pendant. The pendant has a mottled green patina. Measurements; length 42.5mm, width 29.5mm, thickness 2.1mm, weight 9.04g. Similar examples can be found in Mediaeval Armorial Horse Furniture in Norfo…
Created on: Wednesday 20th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
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