Record ID: NMS-D6903A
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval gilded copper-alloy horse-harness pendant, now very worn. It is in the shape of an upside-down fleur-de-lis, with a suspension loop projecting from the top (the centre of the stem). The loop is pierced from side to side, although the small hole is now blocked with copper-alloy corrosion. The body of the pendant is thin and flat, slightly convex on the front and concave on the reverse. Much of the edge is missing, but the fleur shape, with side lobes incurved on their undersides, is clear. No decoration survives apart from small patches of gilding. Length 36.1g,…
Created on: Tuesday 10th January 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 18th January 2023
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Record ID: NMS-85810F
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval copper-alloy horse-harness pendant. It is crescent-shaped, points downwards, with a sturdy oval suspension lug in the centre of the convex edge, pierced from side to side by a small hole and with a ridge running across the base of the lug at the front. The body of the pendant has lost either end (worn breaks) and in between has a zig-zag lower (incurved) edge. It is decorated with double parallel lines of punchmarks forming a border around the upper edge, and a zig-zag pattern springing from the base of the lug, with each of the lower points of the zig-zag join…
Created on: Tuesday 13th December 2022
Last updated: Thursday 20th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-1198BE
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper-alloy suspension mount from a horse-harness pendant. It is T-shaped, and both bars are triangular in cross-section. The horizontal bar has an integral circular-section rivet at either end, one retaining a circular sheet copper-alloy rove. The vertical bar of the T is split, with both halves piereced to take a hinge bar. There is iron staining around this but the bar itself looks copper-alloy. The object is 19.2mm long and 18.0mm wide, with one rivet bent out slightly adding to this width. The better-preserved rivet gives a total thickness of 7.9mm. The sh…
Created on: Wednesday 27th July 2022
Last updated: Friday 12th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-10EB32
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy medieval horse-harness pendant, now very worn and corroded. The body of the pendant is flat and oval, 28.7mm long and 32.4mm wide.  The loop at the top brings the overall length to 37.8mm, and thickness to 6.5mm; it has a circular side-to-side perforation. The pendant is decorated on the front with an unclear asymmetric pattern of wide curves, possibly a bird or animal; compare Ashley 2002, nos. 187 and 188.
Created on: Wednesday 27th July 2022
Last updated: Friday 12th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-4069FB
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper-alloy horse-harness pendant with enamel inlay. The pendant is in the shape of a sexfoil with each foil having an outcurved edge. There is a worn relief design within a reserved border, of two lions in profile looking left, each with a paw raised, one above the other, with a bend (a diagonal strip) over the top of both. The background has traces of red enamel, and the bend has a minute speck of silvery metal in one place, raising the possibility that it might have had a white-metal coating. In heraldic language this can be described as Gules two lions passant gardant or…
Created on: Tuesday 19th May 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 18th November 2020
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Record ID: NMS-66B72E
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Very corroded copper-alloy 13th- or 14th-century horse-harness pendant. It has a circular centre with six rounded knops around the circumference. The upper one ends in a long projection which is pierced from side to side, but now broken; half of the loop is missing. The lower knop is perforated from front to back. Gilding survives between the knops. There was clearly some relief decoration on the front of the pendant, but little survives to help identify it. Surviving length 31.0mm, width 18.0mm, thickness in centre 3.7mm, weight 5.7g. The length of the loop suggests that this pe…
Created on: Monday 9th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 16th June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-D46BAE
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Very tiny medieval copper-alloy horse-harness pendant. It is shield-shaped, with an almost straight top (slightly outcurved) and sides curving to a rounded point. The shield is relatively long (15mm) compared to its width (11mm). In the centre of the top is a projecting suspension lug, pierced from side to side but now incomplete, broken through the hole. This brings the surviving length up to 20mm and the thickness at the broken lug is 3mm. The hole can have been no more than 1mm or so in diameter. It weighs 1.6g. The front of the shield is decorated with a wide, neatly made cro…
Created on: Friday 7th February 2020
Last updated: Friday 7th May 2021
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Record ID: NMS-C7EB39
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of unusual medieval horse-harness pendant. The fragment is now roughly square, of side 15mm, with a projecting suspension loop which takes the total length to 24.5mm.The loop is pierced from side to side with a hole which is now oval, probably very worn, and the line of it continues down the reverse as a ridge or rib. All the edges of the body of the pendant are broken so the original shape cannot now be reconstructed. It is decorated on the front with a separate silver sheet or foil, too thin and flimsy to survive if detached. The silver foil has grooves on it, but it…
Created on: Monday 13th January 2020
Last updated: Friday 15th May 2020
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Record ID: NMS-A16F24
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Very corroded medieval horse-harness pendant made from copper alloy and enamelled. The loop is missing and the rest of the pendant is bent. It was originally shield-shaped, with a straight top and sides curving to a pointed base. The heraldic design can be reconstructed as three closely spaced parallel diagonal lines (a bend cotised) running from top left to bottom right (as viewed from the front) with three small lions (occasionally called lioncels) rampant in a line below, and three more similar lions above, spaced two and one. The tails of the lions are to the observer's right, whi…
Created on: Wednesday 18th December 2019
Last updated: Friday 18th September 2020
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Record ID: NMS-78956F
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete horse-harness pendant of medieval date, now very corroded. It is shield-shaped, with a straight top and straight sides which converge slightly before curving to a rounded end. In the centre of the top is an incomplete loop, pierced from side to side. The front of the pendant has red enamel decoration, originally inlaid but now proud of the corroded surface. The design is the royal arms of England, which can be described as Gules, three lions passant gardant Or. A tiny scrap of gilding survives on one of the lions. Surviving length 31mm, maximum width 19.5mm, thickness of pl…
Created on: Monday 16th December 2019
Last updated: Thursday 9th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-90DCD7
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of medieval horse-harness pendant and most of its suspension mount, both made from copper-alloy. Only the loop of the pendant survives, pierced from side to side. The suspension mount is made from thin sheet. One end is flat, folded and with a slot cut; this holds a copper-alloy bar on which the pendant is hinged. The other end is convex with a hollow reverse, and has a circular hole roughly in its centre. The upper edge is broken across two more circular holes, and there is a hint of a groove running into the centre from the top edge. The original shape was probably a scallo…
Created on: Thursday 5th December 2019
Last updated: Friday 20th November 2020
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Record ID: NMS-778F6E
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gilded medieval copper-alloy horse-harness pendant. It is heart-shaped, with a lug at the top pierced from side to side to form a suspension loop. The rest of the pendant is thin, and slightly convex on the front and concave on the reverse. It has engraved decoration, with a line close to the edge with oblique grooves outside forming a cabled frame. Within this is a design which is hard to read but which appears to be an animal in profile looking left, with a head with open jaws in the upper left-hand lobe (viewed from the front) and a bifurcated tail in the right-hand lobe; both halve…
Created on: Wednesday 4th December 2019
Last updated: Saturday 27th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-675E76
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Just under half of a gilded copper-alloy openwork horse-harness pendant. At the top is a lug pierced from side to side to make a suspension loop; the rest of the pendant is flat. A little of the original curved edge survives to either side of the loop and forms a frame, with relief (possibly engraved) openwork decoration within. The motif is zoomorphic, a bird or animal in profile facing left, with a lion-like head with an engraved eye and perhaps two upright ears, possibly looking back over its shoulder. It has a plump breast, possibly speckled (or damaged); two short curved projecti…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd December 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 8th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-BF6E10
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy banner, part of an elaborate set of harness fittings. The main part is flat and rectangular, 26mm long by 18mm wide and 2mm thick. It is cast in one piece with a hollow cylindrical tube down one long edge; this would have fitted over a separate stem like a flagpole, around which it would have rotated. The main rectangular area is decorated on both faces with a chequerboard design. The alternating squares have minute traces of blue enamel or are covered with rocker-arm engraving and gilded; each is around 4mm square, and there are four across the width and six down the len…
Created on: Monday 25th November 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 5th January 2022
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Record ID: NMS-51C906
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Very worn medieval copper-alloy horse-harness pendant with incomplete loop. It is shield-shaped, with a straight top and sides curving to a point; the corners are now all worn and rounded. The shield (without loop) now measures 29mm long by 26mm wide. The loop is angled slightly forwards, flat on the reverse, and is pierced from side to side with a circular hole; it is now broken through this hole. No trace of any decoration survives on the shield, which is now only 1.5mm thick at most. The surviving total length is 35.5mm and the maximum width, at the broken loop, is 5mm. It weighs 5.58g.
Created on: Wednesday 20th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 9th January 2020
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Record ID: CAM-FAAFB5
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small triangular copper-alloy pendant from medieval horse-harness. The lower edge is straight and just 10 mm wide with one face (presumably the reverse) undecorated. At first sight the other face also appears to be undecorated, but on closer inspection a small patch of red enamel is visible, and over the rest of the pendant there seems to be very fine keying, probably for further enamelling. At the apex of the pendant is a 6 mm wide loop, turned through 90° and pierced with an oval hole. The pendant is in total 26 mm long. This pendant is very small when compared with most medi…
Created on: Monday 22nd June 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SF9131
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Horse-harness pendant complete with suspension mount, both made from copper alloy. The pendant is in the shape of a six-petalled flower, 14 mm wide and with a hollowed reverse. The uppermost petal is extended out into a long stem which eventually terminates in a loop; this is now slightly bent. The total length of the pendant is 30 mm. The suspension mount is also in the shape of a six-petalled flower, with a rivet hole in the centre blocked by iron corrosion. Below the lowest petal, a projection is folded in half and a slot cut to form two hinge loops. A copper-alloy hinge bar p…
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BEDINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8880
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gilded copper-alloy horse-harness pendant in the shape of a shell. It is convex, with a hollow reverse, and is decorated with broad grooves radiating from the base of the loop crossing three pairs of finer curved concentric lines. At the top there is a slight stem and above this the loop, which is turned through ninety degrees. The edges of the pendant are thin and uneven and seem to be largely worn away.
Created on: Friday 5th July 2002
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BENTLEY', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8822
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Large copper-alloy horse-harness pendant, decorated with gilding and enamel. It is a trefoil shape with the loop at the top between two lobes. At the corners, and at the angles between the lobes on the sides, there are smaller trefoil projections. Although the pendant is very corroded, the decoration can be partly reconstructed as follows. A border of red enamel outlines the trefoil shape of the pendant just inside the edge. There is a slightly skewed central stem of reserved metal, with triangular thorns, which splits into two just below the loop and curls outwards and downwards,…
Created on: Monday 24th June 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'PARHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8748
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy horse-harness pendant, now worn and corroded and with a broken loop. In outline it is a quatrefoil with a small right-angled point in each angle. The pendant has an enamelled design; blue enamel around a shield which has an outer cusped border and then red enamel around a cross in the centre. Neither the cross nor the border has any surviving silvering or gilding, but they must originally have been coloured either silver or gold. In heraldic language the charge on the shield is therefore Gules a cross (argent/or) within a bordure engrailed (argent/or). This is almost …
Created on: Thursday 13th June 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'LITTLE CORNARD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8713
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Nicely made gilded copper-alloy horse-harness pendant in the shape of a shell. Below the loop, a wide collar runs around three sides leaving the reverse flat. Below this is the convex shell with scalloped edge, decorated with grooves radiating from the collar which are crossed by three pairs of concentric curving lines following the line of the edge of the shell. The grooves are made up from little individual punch or roulette marks. An unusually high-quality example.
Created on: Tuesday 11th June 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'THORNDON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8653
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Horse-harness pendant and suspension mount, not now joined but so similar that it seems likely that they were once part of a set. The mount is rounded with an integral rivet on the reverse and two bent-over projections to the base; the pendant is a slightly larger convex oval with a suspension loop at the top. The bar is missing. Both elements are made of copper alloy and gilded, and are now very corroded; the corrosion is a strong red colour which may indicate a relatively pure copper. The pendant is 20 mm long and 10.5 mm wide, and weighs 1.25g; the mount is 15 mm long and 7 mm w…
Created on: Thursday 6th June 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WIX', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8619
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gilded copper-alloy horse-harness pendant in the shape of a cross. Although now very worn and incomplete, it is possible to reconstruct the decoration quite fully. Each arm is of equal length, D-shaped in cross section and ends in an expanded rounded terminal. The terminals are decorated all over with small stamps; the shape of the stamps is unclear. In the centre is a circular lobe, pierced to take a large separate copper-alloy rivet. This is hammered down flat on the reverse, and projects on the front to a total length of 10 mm. It flares to a neatly rounded head. Around the r…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd May 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8367
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Very corroded fragment of openwork horse-harness pendant, made from copper alloy. It appears to have been circular, with a large circular perforation in the centre and a ring of smaller roughly circular perforations around, each of the smaller perforations being separated by a pair of radiating grooves. Two of the smaller perforations survive intact and the pendant's edge appears to have been decoratively shaped around them. At the top, the base of a suspension loop turned at right angles to the rest of the pendant survives.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FORDHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8347
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Horse-harness pendant and suspension mount, both made from copper alloy gilded on the front. The pendant is drop-shaped and slightly convex, with a large rounded terminal at the narrower end set with a circular cabochon glass setting. The rest of the pendant is decorated with transverse grooves, and there is a suspension loop extending from the centre of the wider end. The pendant measures 30 mm long but just 9 mm wide, and is made of fairly thick metal. It is attached by a copper-alloy hinge bar to the suspension mount, which tapers from the hinge loops to a transverse moulding and t…
Created on: Thursday 28th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 21st September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'CHILTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8239
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy horse-harness pendant in the shape of a shield. Within a border the centre of the shield is sunken for enamel. Most of the space is taken up with a counter-relief butterfly. This has an oval head with pointed top, with a sunken oval cell in the centre with two pellet eyes. To either side are long antennae, and below is the body which is made up of four cells to give a transversely striped effect. The wings have three rounded cells in each lower half, and three rounded cells below a long curved cell and a small triangular cell in each upper half. Above the shield is a comp…
Created on: Monday 4th March 2002
Last updated: Friday 11th September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'GOODERSTONE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7823
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of horse-harness pendant. Probably originally circular and c. 40 mm in diameter, now only the loop (turned through 90 degrees) and a small part of the body of the pendant survive. There is enough, however, to reconstruct the pendant as openwork, with a small central circular perforation (surviving incomplete) surrounded by a ring of further perforations (two incomplete ones survive with a complete triangular perforation below the loop). Around the complete perforation are traces of lines, perhaps originally engraved, which can be reconstructed as a line forming the edge of …
Created on: Monday 7th January 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FORNHAM ST MARTIN', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7799
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lozengiform horse-harness pendant made from gilded and enamelled copper alloy. At one corner is a complete suspension loop which is turned through ninety degrees to the rest of the pendant. The pendant has a gilded frame around a lozengiform pale turquoise enamelled field, in the centre of which is a reserved gilded mythical beast, perhaps a griffin or cockatrice. This is standing on one leg and has another leg raised to the left (as you look at it); to the right is a tail which appears to be quite feathery, and at the top is a head with jaw, ears and a possible horn, which may face…
Created on: Thursday 3rd January 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7456
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy horse-harness pendant of unusual fish-like shape. It is thin and now bent in half, but complete with loop turned through ninety degrees at the top. It is corroded and has no surviving decoration on either face. The shape is long and narrow, c. 60 mm long but only15 mm wide. The top flares out from the loop and then has a concave curve down to a small projection on each side (on one side this is very slight). Thereafter the sides are convex, with another small projection on one side; near the bottom there are two more small projections and then a bifurcated 'tail'. Th…
Created on: Tuesday 27th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COCKFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7447
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small harness pendant and suspension mount. Both are shell-shaped, slightly convex and 11 mm wide; the mount has an integral square-section rivet on the reverse. The narrower ends are both extended into long stems with transverse mouldings across them, but the pendant then develops a single loop and the suspension mount a double one, made by folding the stem back on itself and cutting a central slot. The two are linked by a copper-alloy hinge bar and still move freely. Total length 35 mm.
Created on: Thursday 22nd November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COCKFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7408
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Large rectangular horse-harness pendant, now slightly bent along a vertical line running down from the loop, which is turned at right angles to the rest of the pendant. The dimensions as bent are 35 mm long and 42 mm wide. There is a circular hole 4 mm in diameter on the line of the crease, whose lower edge is 12 mm above the bottom of the pendant. The pendant is decorated with an engraved border and lines within which divide it into seven vertical panels. Four are wider and have four sub-circular stamps, each with nine small counter-relief pellets. The three dividing panels are na…
Created on: Thursday 15th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WORLINGTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7273
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy horse-harness pendant, circular and slightly domed. The edge has been decorated with punchmarks which have weakened the metal, causing the punched part to break away leaving an indented outline. There is a trace of gilding close to the edge. At the top is a suspension loop turned at right angles, and to either side of this the metal was thicker; the punchmarks survive here better, and look like simple dots. Length, with suspension loop, 35 mm; width, 24 mm; thickness, 4 mm.
Created on: Tuesday 30th October 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'PEASENHALL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF6539
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy horse-harness pendant, quatrefoil in shape with a broken suspension loop at top. It is decorated with three relief crowns, one with traces of gilding, but the enamel background has now entirely vanished. These are either the arms of the bishopric of Ely (with a red background) or the abbey of Bury St Edmunds (with a blue background).
Created on: Tuesday 7th August 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BURY ST EDMUNDS', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF6148
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy horse-harness pendant in the shape of a six-petalled flower. Each petal is rounded and one has a broken suspension loop (old breaks) projecting from it. The pendant has decoration of a border, a central circular dot and a dot in each petal; the outer dots are joined to the central dot by narrow radiating lines. Between the border and the dots is decayed dark enamel, possibly originally black or dark blue. There is a single spot of pale shiny gilding on the border.
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 9th September 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK WESTERFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF6149
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Horse-harness pendant made from copper-alloy sheet. Now incomplete, it is convex with the edges pinched together at one corner to make a stem, U-shaped in cross-section, which ends in a chunky suspension loop. There is no stamping or any other decoration visible. This type of flimsy horse-harness pendant may be early in the series, perhaps 12th century.
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 9th September 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK WESTERFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5980
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Enamelled and silvered copper-alloy horse-harness pendant. Quatrefoil in shape, it has a suspension loop projecting from the centre of one foil. There is a square in the centre with a blue enamel background, on which is a reserved metal stag running. Each foil has a metal background with a red enamel bird. The birds are in profile, and each have a tail and two folded wings projecting from their rears; they have two three-toed feet and a head with a dot metal eye turned to look back over their shoulder, with the beak pointing backwards. Each bird is orientated with its feet outwar…
Created on: Wednesday 13th June 2001
Last updated: Friday 14th June 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK GEDGRAVE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5194
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Lozenge-shaped copper-alloy horse-harness pendant with intact but worn suspension loop at top. The front is gilded with three crown shapes in red enamel, making up a reversed version of the arms of the bishop of Ely: gules, three crowns or. The reverse has fine scratches running from corner to corner to form an uneven cross.
Created on: Monday 9th April 2001
Last updated: Thursday 4th February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ESSEX ALRESFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5205
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Shield-shaped copper-alloy horse-harness pendant with a broken and incomplete suspension loop. The surface of the metal has been eaten away by corrosion, leaving the inlaid blue enamel proud of the surface. The arms are those of the de Bohun family, earls of Hertford, Essex and Northampton: azure, a bend between two cotises and six lions rampant or (i.e. a blue background with a diagonal gold line between two smaller parallel lines, with three rampant lions to either side). The lions are reversed so that they face to the right (as you look at the pendant) rather than the left. Th…
Created on: Monday 9th April 2001
Last updated: Thursday 17th September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ESSEX ALRESFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5206
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Small copper-alloy horse-harness pendant, roughly oval with a small suspension loop projecting from the centre of one of the long sides. The design consists of a hexagon with incurved edges, inside which is a six-petalled flower inlaid with red enamel. Between the flower and the raised edge of the hexagon there is gilding laid over a dotted background. The narrow ends of the oval are formed from circular perforations set into the incurved edges of the hexagon. Along the other four edges, along the top and bottom of the pendant, are small projections. This pendant is not heraldic, j…
Created on: Monday 9th April 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ESSEX ALRESFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5207
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Circular copper-alloy horse-harness pendant, with suspension loop at top. There is a central trefoil of white enamel set in a gilded ground, with a triangular cell of red enamel filling the angles between the foils. In the white trefoil is a stag's head of gilded bronze, with a long oval face, ears, and antlers each with a pair of lower tines and an asymmetrically set pair of upper tines. The technical heraldic term for this style of head with no neck is 'cabossed'. The trefoil is unusual in heraldry and it may be that this pendant was merely decorative and not heraldic.
Created on: Monday 9th April 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ESSEX ALRESFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5179
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Shield-shaped horse-harness pendant with heraldic decoration together with its suspension mount, both made of copper alloy. The pendant has three chevrons filled with red enamel and a tiny fragment of shiny silvery ?gilding. It has a suspension loop turned through 90 degrees still fixed to a mount. The mount consists of two rounded domed lobes, one above the other; the upper one has an integral spike on the reverse, now bent into a hook, and the lower one has a central slot with a perforation running through either half. There is a small trace of gilding. An iron hinge bar survives in…
Created on: Monday 2nd April 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 11th May 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK TOSTOCK', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5182
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Gilded copper-alloy horse-harness pendant. It is sub-circular and slightly domed, and in the centre is a lozenge-shaped perforation with all edges slightly incurved. The lozenge is surrounded with punched or rouletted decoration; double lines of dots forming a border which extends into a fleur-de-lis at each corner. A line of rocker-arm engraving extends from the centre of each side of the lozenge to the edge of the pendant. At the top of the pendant is a suspension loop turned through 90 degrees. The pendant is slightly squashed.
Created on: Monday 2nd April 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 14th January 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'CAMBRIDGESHIRE KENNETT', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4803
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small circular domed horse-harness pendant, made of copper alloy and gilded on the convex front, with a loop turned through 90 degrees at the top. The loop is internally worn and the gilding has rubbed off the centre of the convex front. Only 21 mm diameter.
Created on: Monday 19th February 2001
Last updated: Monday 8th September 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK WALDRINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4804
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Badly corroded shield-shaped horse-harness pendant with enamelled decoration of 3 lions passant guardant on a red background, with a white label of 3 points over the top. The lions have completely corroded away and are now just visible as voids in the red enamel. There is an intact suspension loop at the top. Length 49 mm, width 27 mm. These are the arms of Thomas of Brotherton, 5th son of Edward I, born 1300 at Brotherton in Yorkshire, created Earl of Norfolk in 1312, died 1338, buried in Bury St Edmunds Abbey (info: E. Martin).
Created on: Monday 19th February 2001
Last updated: Monday 8th September 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK WALDRINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4751
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Flat circular horse-harness pendant, made out of thin copper-alloy and now very corroded, but complete and with surviving gilding and decoration. Some edges seem to have been lost and the pendant must originally have been c. 39-40 mm in diameter. It is decorated with an eight-point star with engraved outline, on a ground of tiny punched annulets all within an engraved border. At the top is a slightly squashed suspension loop which has now just worn/corroded through. There is plenty of rather copper-coloured gilding on the front but none on the back or loop. This type of horse-harn…
Created on: Tuesday 13th February 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK EAST BERGHOLT', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4587
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval horse-harness pendant of flimsy convex type. Made from copper alloy and drop-shaped, it has a broken suspension loop at the apex, turned through 90 degrees. Slightly convex, it is decorated with a linear (originally engraved?) design of a trefoil leaf with double-line midribs in each foil, with curling tendrils (or two further lobes) beneath, all on a dotted ground within a border. The decoration is very neatly executed. The pendant is now very corroded, and has lost nearly all its surface; the only bits that survive are the dots and lines, which preserve gilding. The fl…
Created on: Tuesday 30th January 2001
Last updated: Thursday 6th December 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK GREAT CORNARD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4588
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Horse-harness pendant of medieval date. Flimsy, flat and circular, 20 mm in diameter, it has a complete suspension loop at the top turned through 90 degrees. It is very corroded, and now has no surface or decoration surviving. There are some odd linear ridges on one face, but these are probably simply corrosion products. It has corroded to a rough brown colour with patches of pale green.
Created on: Tuesday 30th January 2001
Last updated: Thursday 6th December 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK GREAT CORNARD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4606
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Ornate copper-alloy horse-harness pendant. The central lobe is 20 x 21 mm and decorated with a border groove, within which is a relief double-headed spread eagle on a dotted ground. In the centre of each edge is a square projecting lobe. At the top, a broken suspension loop turned through 90 degrees projects from the top of the lobe. The bottom lobe has a circular perforation, perhaps for suspending another pendant. At each corner of the central square is another projecting lobe, each of which may once have been square but are now rather battered. Gilding survives on the central…
Created on: Tuesday 30th January 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 11th December 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK LITTLE CORNARD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4424
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Probable horse-harness pendant with armorial decoration. The object is flat and is a slightly irregular quatrefoil or rounded square in shape, with projecting points between each foil. One face is decorated with a raised border and a raised central bird standing on two legs with displayed wings and a head turned to look to the right (as you look at it). The head has a dot eye and a hooked beak with an engraved line; the wings have engraved detail too. The whole object is very corroded but gilding survives on the head and neck. It is possible that the background was enamelled, but …
Created on: Thursday 18th January 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK ST MARY SOUTH ELMHAM OTHERWISE HOMERSFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3886
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Chunky copper-alloy two-piece horse-harness pendant. Around the outside is a frame with a quatrefoil perforation in the centre and seven flaring arms around the circumference. Each arm is decorated with two deep flaring V-shaped grooves. Where the eighth arm should be is a square-section projection with a broken loop on the top; this projection has a deep cleft in it, running up from the top of the quatrefoil perforation. The cleft has an ?iron hinge bar on which an inner pendant swivels; this pendant is in the shape of a fleur-de-lis and is decorated with a groove across the 'stal…
Created on: Tuesday 14th November 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK LAKENHEATH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3869
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy horse-harness pendant, a flat quatrefoil just over 1 mm thick and now a little bent. In the centre is a sunken circle with a raised shield; within the shield are three raised chevrons. Between the chevrons and in the circle outside the shield are the remains of enamel, consisting of a red coloration. Although this is almost certainly a copper-alloy corrosion caused by the presence of the enamel, and not the actual colour of the enamel itself, the three-chevron design is probably the arms of Clare which were red. In technical heraldic terms these arms are gules three chevr…
Created on: Tuesday 7th November 2000
Last updated: Tuesday 11th May 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3813
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gilded copper-alloy horse-harness pendant in the shape of a bird (finder has identified it as a swooping peregrine falcon due to the shape of the wings, tail etc). Where the head should be is a broken loop turned at right angles to the plane of the pendant. The body of the bird is flat and decorated with an engraved saltire. The two wings both have rounded tops and taper to a rounded point; they are decorated with an engraved spiral at the top which then turns into grooves running longitudinally. In between is a flat flaring tail with a central groove and two edge grooves. In between …
Created on: Monday 30th October 2000
Last updated: Thursday 22nd February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BADINGHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3612
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy shield-shaped horse-harness pendant with heraldic design. Central lion rampant inlaid with remains of dark (blue or black?) enamel on a background with remains of gilding, bordered with triangular shapes inlaid with red enamel. The arms represented therefore are: Or, a lion rampant [azure or sable?] within a bordure engrailed gules. These arms with a lion azure are those of Thomas Percy, Bishop of Norwich 1355-1369. He was a younger son of Henry, 2nd Lord Percy, of Alnwick, Northumberland.
Created on: Wednesday 4th October 2000
Last updated: Wednesday 17th November 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK NETTLESTEAD', grid reference and parish protected.