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HERALDIC PENDANT SHIELD WITH LION RAMPANT ON RED ENAMEL

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1985, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1984, 124 (Serial). SDO84.

‘MEDIEVAL ENAMELLED HERALDIC PENDANTS FROM STOURPAINE AND HANFORD. These two objects were found by Mr J. Adams who kindly brought them to the writer’s attention and arranged for them to be conserved and studied in the Dorset County Museum. Both belong to a familiar class of object thought to have been attached to horse harness. The first (Fig. 11) was found at Lazerton Farm, Stourpaine (ST 86361041). It is made of copper-alloy. The shield, of Ward-Perkins’ Type * (London Museum, Medieval Catalogue (1954), 118) … The second pendant (Fig. 12) was found in Hanford (ST 84741135). Of the same type and metal as the first the shield has a lion rampant with a background of red enamel. Part of the iron attachment pin survives in the loop. Both pendants may be dated to the 14th century.’

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