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Record ID: SOMDOR206
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy and enamel horse harness pendant. Sub-rounded shape. Very corroded. Rivet at top of hinged fixing. Recessed for enamel. Square area in middle with possible heraldic lion decoration in red enamel. Traces of silvering in some areas.
Created on: Wednesday 13th October 1999
Last updated: Monday 24th February 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'DORSET WEST STAFFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOMDOR403
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy horse harness pendant suspension mount. Sub-oval domed suspension plate with large side lobes for attachment. Two top lobes remain but traces of two smaller ones at the sides of the lower part are still visible. At the base is a notch housing a hinge point. The hinged bar is secured in place by folding over of the strips of metal each side of the notch. From this is suspended the remnant of the pendant (top loop only). The mount is decorated around its edge with seven clusters of stamped rings.
Created on: Wednesday 5th April 2000
Last updated: Friday 20th November 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Poxwell', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOMDOR429
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy horse harness pendant. Oval plate with hanging loop. Traces of decorative frame on the front but largely worn away. Broken in places.
Created on: Friday 7th April 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Waddon', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOMDOR1122
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Elaborate copper alloy horse harness pendant. Articulated attachment to allow pendant to swing. Quatrefoil frame containing a separately hinged cruciform pendant. The frame has small pointed projections between each foil and has a convex front. The pendant has globular ended arms and a sub-rectangular raised centre. There are traces of gilding on the surface. The back is undecorated. Each of the articulated sections is attached by a transverse rivet.
Created on: Monday 30th July 2001
Last updated: Wednesday 17th November 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'DORSET PUDDLETOWN', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOMDOR-8023A7
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy harness pendant of medieval date. The rectangular harness pendant has a suspension loop at apex. It has an unclear decorative border which frames the centre panel. There are traces of gilding, especially around the suspension loop.
Created on: Monday 29th March 2004
Last updated: Thursday 2nd February 2017
No spatial data available.

Record ID: SOMDOR-1440D6
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Gilded copper-alloy mount and/or pendant, perhaps from horse-harness. The object is axe-shaped, with Style II zoomorphic triple-strand interlace decoration and gilding on the front. The axe form has a narrow, slightly tapered top end with an attachment loop; the bottom edge is broad and convex, and the sides are incurved. The triple-strand decoration is highly stylised, and comprises several elements; it is difficult to trace clearly. There are two closed oval loops, one in each of the corners of the curved bottom edge. The rest comprises several elements, probably representing one …
Created on: Thursday 17th June 2004
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
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Record ID: SOMDOR-E161E7
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy harness pendant. Octofoil shape. At the centre is a quatrefoil panel with a cast fleur de lys, on which are traces of silvering. From this radiate eight flaring arms, each with three diverging longitudinal ridges. The ends of the arms are. squared off. At the top of the arm which projects from above the top of the fleur de lys is the stub of a suspension loop (set at right angles to the pendant). The back is flat and undecorated.
Created on: Monday 2nd August 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 30th September 2015
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Record ID: SOMDOR-476ED7
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy horse harness pendant with pseudo-heraldic decoration. Quatrefoil with points between the foils. In the centre is a square of red enamel with raised decoration of an heraldic lion. Around this at each side of the square is a raised fleur de lys. It is likely that there was also enamel in the resulting recesses around the fleur de lys. There is a raised framing band around the edge of the pendant. At the top of the pendant is an offset suspension loop with the remains of the axis/attachment bar in the circular hole. The back is slightly concave and undecorated. Brian Read r…
Created on: Tuesday 1st March 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SOMDOR-F04E61
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gilded cast copper alloy horse harness pendant of medieval date. The harness pendant is a simple circular shape, with a slightly concave back. The integral attachment lug (13.15mm in length) is set at 90 degrees to the rest of the pendant, and has a 3.5mm hole at its upper end. The loop itself is slightly bent. The decoration on the front of the pendant was formerly gilded, and some of this gilding survives. The motif consists of a large recercelee cross with a small leaf shape in between each arm. Examples of similar shape in Read's 'History Beneath our Feet' are dated to the 13th o…
Created on: Wednesday 7th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: IHS-120BF5
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy harness pendant with short piece of hanger attached. Outline of design of a central shield with three lions passant guardant; three fleurs-de-lys around the shield, one above the shield and one either side. with some scraps of blue enamel visible around them. Measurements: quatrefoil 29 mm x 36 mm (including loop); hanger 14 mm (all approximate).
Created on: Thursday 27th October 2005
Last updated: Monday 10th May 2021
No spatial data available.

Record ID: SOMDOR-E06048
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small cast copper alloy object identified by Geoff Egan as a pendant component from a medieval horse harness pendant. The object is 20.28mm in length, 17.82mm wide and 7.55mm thick. It weighs 5.08g. At the proximal end there is a circular loop which is set at 90 degrees to the rest of the object. Below this is tear drop shaped shaft, also set at 90 degrees. From the base of this two spheres project, one to each side. Both are decorated with a moulded outwards-facing X shape. The object would have been suspended from a harness mount, possibly with other pendants.
Created on: Wednesday 18th January 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Stafford', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOMDOR-FA33D1
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probable medieval horse harness pendant component, cast in copper alloy with enamel decoration. The object is globular, 9.66mm in diameter at its widest point and narrows gradually. It superficially resembles an Anglo-Saxon pinhead, however at the thin end there are the worn remains of a suspension loop. The object is decorated with 13 small concave depressions, which are fairly regularly spaced in three lines (the upper of 5, the central line of 5 and the line closest to the loop of 3). Most of the depressions contain enamel, which has degraded to a creamy colour. The harness pendan…
Created on: Thursday 19th January 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WILT-99A2E6
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy openwork (probable) harness pendant in the form of an eagle, missing its loop. The eagle has its head left (as you look at it) and tall wings, that stretch from just below the head to just above the feet (the legs with three-clawed feet being either side of the tail, bifurcated at its end, all three of which extend to the bottom of the pendant). It is openwork between head and neck and wings, tail and legs. The pendant is rather worn but the wings have longitudinal ribs and perhaps a tiny trace of gilding survives (on the wings). It is flat on the reverse and m…
Created on: Friday 9th June 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 27th September 2016
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Record ID: SOMDOR-B30767
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy strap shield-shaped harness pendant of probable fourteenth century date. The pendant measures 47.1mm by 30.6mm by 1.3mm and weighs 8.05g. The front is very slightly convex. In the centre of the top of the shield there is an integral suspension loop which has been turned through ninety degrees. There are traces of gilding on the front of the pendant but the decorative elements are unclear due to wear.
Created on: Thursday 8th February 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Child Okeford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-847886
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy shield shaped harness pendant with a broken suspension loop. The front of the shield is decorated with three lions passant guardant (probably the arms of England before 1340) with a recessed field around for enamel. No enamel survives. The lions are arranged one above the other down the length of the shield and consequently become progressively smaller as the shield narrows. The back is undecorated. Medieval. 14th century. Dimensions: 34.10 mm x 19.07 mm x 4.61 mm Weight: 5.47 g
Created on: Monday 14th May 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 14th April 2021
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Record ID: SOM-F41FF7
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probable gilded cast copper alloy horse harness pendant of medieval date. The curvilinear pendant measures 25.6mm by 8.9mm by 2.5mm and weighs 3.6g. At the apex is a loop which has been turned through ninety degrees. The pendant has a convex front and a concave back. On the front there are traces of gilding. A pendant with a broadly similar form from Norton Bavant, Wiltshire, has been recorded on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database (WILT-674E02).
Created on: Monday 5th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Child Okeford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IHS-24E1E1
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy horse harness pendant with hanger, bearing a design of a colourful bird, most likely a peacock. The bird has a dark beak, neck and feet, green head awith three feathers behind, green back and red wings and drooping tail. Ground coloration is lost. Measurements: Pendant 25 mm x 31 mm (42 mm including loop); hanger 20 mm (all approximate).
Created on: Monday 7th January 2008
Last updated: Sunday 1st October 2017
No spatial data available.

Record ID: DOR-4A7474
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy harness pendant. A rectangular pendant with a large central hole. Decorated with an incised line and gilding on the front. the back is undecorated. An the middle of the top edge projects a suspension loop. this is probably part of an elaborate set of harness decorations, perhaps hanging from a decorative suspension mount and possible having another element attached at the central hole on the plate. Examples of such arrangements are illustrated and described in Ashley, S, 2002, "Medieval Armorial Horse Furniture in Norfolk" East Anglian Archaeology, report No. 101, p8…
Created on: Monday 21st January 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: DOR-542D87
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy horse harness pendant with enamel decoration. A shield-shaped pendant. The design is probably gules, a fesse between six martlets (3/3) or (a red enamel field with six birds (martlets) and a horizontal band (fesse) and which was probably originally gilded.) These are the arms of the Beauchamp family. The pendant is quite large. There is a suspension loop at the top with a circular pierced hole. The back is flat and undecorated. Date: Medieval - 14th century Dimensions: 49.09 mm x x 31.07 mm x 7.13 mm Weight: 17.09 g A shield-shaped stud with the same coat of a…
Created on: Wednesday 27th February 2008
Last updated: Saturday 13th November 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tarrant Launceston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-D252F5
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy sexfoil pendant. Six lobes radiating from a central circular plate.The lobes are slightly irregular but generally rounded. The top lobe extends into the suspension loop. Opposite it, on the lower edge of the pendant, the lobe is pierced with an off-centre circular hole. It is possible that this was used to suspend another decorative pendant. The centre of the pendant is decorated with a six petaled flower (possibly a rose) with a raised boss at the centre. This may have been enameled (there are traces of what may be blue enamel around the edge of the central boss). …
Created on: Tuesday 4th March 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Frampton', grid reference and parish protected.