Record ID: DUR-F4E207
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: County Durham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy enamelled harness pendant, c. 12-400. It is a quadrilobe in plan, with triangular extensions in each angle. The attachment loop is set perpendicular to the pendant, it is not attached to the cross bar any longer. The front of the pendant is enamelled, the reverse is plain. The design consists of a central square which contains a lion passant left, in relief metal, the field is blue enamel. On each edge of the square is a fleur-de-lys in relief metal, with the field filled with red enamel. There is then a border of relief metal also. It is likely the relief meta…
Created on: Wednesday 8th June 2011
Last updated: Thursday 30th June 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Durham ARea', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DUR-593D52
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: County Durham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy Medieval harness pendant. It is circular in plan with 6 circular lobes around the outer edge. It is raised and has a pattern cast in relief on the front. This pattern is no longer clear due to corrosion and wear. It is most likely the fields around the raised design would have been infilled with enamel. Some traces of a glassy blue remain on the lower right hand side. The attachment loop which would have extended out of the topmost lobe has broken off. The reverse is plain. The pendant is extremely corroded and the surfaces are uneven due to corrosion pro…
Created on: Monday 25th October 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 26th October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Durham Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DUR-592890
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: County Durham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy Medieval harness pendant, 13-14th century. The pendant has a '+' or quatrelobe shaped body which is suspended within a quatrefoil shaped frame. The pendant is suspended within a quatrefoil frame which has a small knop protruding from each corner on the exterior edge. There is an openwork rectangular arm at its apex, which terminates in an oval transverse suspension loop.The back is flat and the sides are slightly bevelled outwards to the front giving it a D-shaped section. The pendant is corroded all over to a dark brown colour with a slightly uneven…
Created on: Monday 25th October 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 26th October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Durham Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DUR-58E893
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: County Durham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy Medieval shield shaped harness pendant. The body is shield shaped but it appears some of the edges are missing, one edge in particular is uneven. The attachment loop, set perpendicular to the body at the top, is broken. It is extremely corroded over all surfaces and no traces of the design remain. The pendant has a grey-ish patina with green and orange corrosion products accreted onto the surface.
Created on: Monday 25th October 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 26th October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Durham Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DUR-3B6384
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: County Durham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy Medieval harness pendant, quatrefoil in plan, dating to c.12-1400. It is quatrefoil in plan with some red enamel remaining from the design. It is worn on both the front and the back and the suspension loop is missing. It is difficult to see what the design would have been originally due to the wear and the loss of enamel. It was probably a griffin passant in red enamel similar to no.202 in Ashley.
Created on: Wednesday 19th May 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 1st June 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Durham Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DUR-651FF7
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: County Durham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy quatrefoil Medieval harness pendant dating to the 14th century. It has four rounded lobes with a triangular lobe in between each. It is decorated on the front face with enamel with a raised border around the edge. Crowned I in an azure field with azure and gilding in the charge. The pendant has an attachment loop at the top. This is fitted into a hanger which is split allowing the loop to fit in between the two arms. Each arm has a circular hole at the same level as the loop. Above the split section the hanger extends upwards to a bilobe section with a circular stud …
Created on: Tuesday 8th September 2009
Last updated: Friday 29th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Durham Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DUR-651663
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: County Durham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy quatrefoil medieval harness pendant It has four semi-circular lobes with a triangular point in between each lobe. It is decorated on the front face with enamel. In the centre is a dragon passant left in red (gules). The dragon is inside a square, on each side of this a lis extends out. The field is blue (azure). The pendant has a broken attachment loop at the top which is set perpendicular. Irene Szymanski has seen a photograph of this pendant and comments that this design is fairly common. If you go to IHS-11E882; its associated finds will link to other examples. Th…
Created on: Tuesday 8th September 2009
Last updated: Monday 10th May 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Durham Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DUR-650407
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: County Durham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy shield shaped Medieval harness pendant It is decorated on the front face with 3 horizontal lines of towers with 4 on the top line, 3 on the middle and 2 on the bottom. The toweres are picked out in red (gules) enamel. The pendant has a broken attachment loop at the top. Irene Szymanski has seen an image of this item and commented- 'I think these are the arms of Ferrers and the earls of Derby, "vairy or and gules" (attached). The de Ferrers were a powerful and bellicose clan, who married wives of the highest rank; for example, Earl William de Ferrers (died 1254) marri…
Created on: Tuesday 8th September 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 12th May 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Durham Area', grid reference and parish protected.