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.