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Record ID: NMGW-221F3A
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gilded silver heart-shaped pendant engraved with the symbols of Christ's wound. The front is made from a sheet raised in repoussé style into a dome, and vertically grooved at the top to make a heart shape. It is soldered to a back-plate cut from a sheet and indented by filing to give a scalloped or cusped edge; there are seven lobes down each edge, and one at top and bottom. A two-strand 'rope-twist' filigree wire border encircles the heart, concealing the join between front and backplate.
A suspension loop has been made at the top, by cutting and drilling the backp…
Created on: Tuesday 11th November 2014
Last updated: Monday 26th July 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-9E8024
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description
The reported object is a silver gilt devotional reliquary pendant (weight 17.613g.). It is of rounded arch niche form, with one hinged door. This has been made with the hinge on the right, and was opened by removing a pin which slides through retaining tubes on the left side of the pendant. These mirror the appearance of the hinge on the right.
The front of the door has a damaged openwork panel in its centre. Two cast haloed figures kneel within a beaded circular frame. The figure on the left appears to be praying; that on the right appears to have arms crossed o…
Created on: Friday 23rd January 2009
Last updated: Monday 18th January 2021
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