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Record ID: CORN-C9D303
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy purse bar of LMMC type A1, with an oval suspension loop and a central block in the shape of a shield. There are two incised lines in the shape of a cross on one side of the central block, but this pattern has been disrupted by an oval casting flaw. The central block is drilled and fitted with a swivelling oval loop which is lozenge-shaped in cross-section; the top of the loop has fractured and there is about 1 mm of the metal missing. There is a moulded, stylised, zoomorphic head to either side of the central block, gripping the side arms, which are circular in cross-sect…
Created on: Saturday 26th June 2004
Last updated: Thursday 8th November 2018
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Record ID: CORN-C98153
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy horse-harness pendant in the shape of a shield with traces of red enamelling around the upper edges of the pendant which have not been bent; otherwise the patina is brown with patches of green, but no active corrosion product; the surface is too worn to make out any detail and the point of the shield has been bent over so that the bottom of the pendant is rounded; the suspension loop is circular in profile and complete. 13th - 15th century.
Created on: Friday 25th June 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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