MEDIEVAL HARNESS PENDANT

1200

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.