Record ID: SUSS-78B4F0
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy heraldic shield-shaped horse harness pendant. The pendant itself measures 35.9mm long, 26.6mm wide and is 2.9mm thick. The suspension loop is rotated at 90 degrees to the pendant and measures 6.5mm long, 4.6mm wide and 3.7mm thick. The entire item weighs 10.78grams. The pendant has enamelled coats of arms on both sides, the coats of arms are in red and gold; made of red enamel on the original, gold coloured, brass of the pendent. One side has: Or three chevrons gules; ie three red chevrons on a gold background. These are the arms of the Earls of Gloucester and Hereford, s…
Created on: Friday 11th January 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 11th May 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Middleton on Sea', grid reference and parish protected.

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: BH-DFA832
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A bent and corroded copper-alloy horse harness pendant of probable 14th century date. The pendant takes the form of a spade-shield bearing a heraldic device of Or fretty gules (gold lozenges on a red background) - this appears to be the arms of the de Verdon family. Only traces of the red enamel survive and the gilding has also been lost. The suspension loop is set at a right-angle to the top edge and consists of a flattened, sub-oval plate with a circular aperture. The reverse of the pendant is flat and plain. The object measures 45.5mm high, 27.8mm wide and 6.8mm thick. The wei…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd April 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Weston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-42CA17
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy gilt and enameled horse harness pendant and silvered pendant hanger, together measuring 55.59mm in length and weighing 15.98g. The pendant hanger is T-shaped and triangular in section with a split cylindrical projection at the bottom of the stem. The cross bar measures 19.21x9.13x2.88mm and the stem 6.04x7.95x4.15mm, excluding the cylindrical projection which is 5.92mm in diameter and 7.36mm in horizontal length. The iron axis bar is present and corroded as the suspended pendant is in situ and immoveable. Silvering is present on all parts of the hanger except for…
Created on: Tuesday 24th February 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 4th October 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: IOW-1CC530
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy shield-shaped harness pendant of medieval date (c.1200-c. 1400). The pendant has a straight top, curving sides and a pointed base. At the centre of the top of the shield there is a suspension bar with a loop turned through 90° to the plane of the pendant. The rear face of the pendant is plain. Most of the loop is missing and has abraded breaks. 33.0 x 22.6 x 3.2mm. Weight: 7.96g. The shield is decorated with: gules three lions passant guardant or with a label of three points azure. A red back ground with three gold lions and at the top over o…
Created on: Wednesday 5th May 2010
Last updated: Thursday 15th April 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-D6DF11
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy horse harness pendant. The pendant is in the form of a large quatrefoil with a small right-angle in each corner. In the centre is a heraldic crest, though it is somewhat difficult to describe in the absence of colour. In the centre is a shield containing a chevron between three crosses bottony/fleury or even crosslet. There appears to be the remains of enamel in the background of the shield, and so the heraldy might best be described as 'gules a chevron between three crosses bottony or'. There is an incomplete loop at the top. Similar heraldry is seen fo…
Created on: Friday 14th May 2010
Last updated: Monday 17th May 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Saltfleetby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HESH-E6F088
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn cast copper alloy enamelled heraldic harness pendant of probable 14th-century (c.1250 - c.1450) date. The pendant is worn and abraded. It is sub-triangular (shield-shaped) in plan and sub-rectangular in cross-section. The edges of the shield are slightly bevelled and the profile of the pendant is slightly bowed (convex). On the upper edge of the shield is an integral cast suspension loop which is set at 90 degrees to the plain of the pendant. This loop has been pierced (diameter 2mm) and complete. The front face of the pendant had an enamelled design. The surface of the front f…
Created on: Wednesday 1st September 2010
Last updated: Friday 15th January 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bridgnorth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-1FD1F7
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy Roman harness pendant of a type generally dated to the 3rd century. It is flat with a broken transverse suspension loop at the top. Below the loop it has a kite-shaped upper body with a very elongated lower point. The upper part is decorated on the front with two incised lines marking out a lozenge shape with the loop at the top point. The lower point tapers gradually to a rounded knop at the terminal which projects above the front of the pendant. About half way down this extended point it widens into an oval shape with two incised lines in a chevron on the fr…
Created on: Thursday 16th September 2010
Last updated: Friday 17th September 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Chichester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-B16C87
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy harness pendant dating to the Medieval period. The pendant is shield shaped with a broken suspension loop projecting from the top. The heraldic device on the object is Per fess indented xx and xx. The xx represent a colour and a metal however these are unknown. The attachment loop is broken at the top and has been twisted to one side. The object can be dated from 1250-1450AD.
Created on: Thursday 23rd September 2010
Last updated: Friday 15th October 2010
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LVPL-B1A377
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy harness pendant dating to the Medieval period. The object is lozenge shaped in plan with a circular suspension loop projecting from the top. The object bears the heraldic device bendy or (gold) and azure (blue). Bendy or and azure are the arms of the Montfort, Mountfort or Mountford (spelling optional) family, the label is a mark of difference indicating it is the arms of the eldest son. The reverse is flat and undecorated. The object can be dated to the 13th century.
Created on: Thursday 23rd September 2010
Last updated: Friday 15th October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Boroughbridge', grid reference and parish protected.