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MEDIEVAL HARNESS HOOK
Medieval cast copper alloy horse harness fitting. It is lozengeform with a central horizontal band of red enamel, with three rows of alternating green and blue enamel squares. In heraldic terms, this could be described as 'checky or and azure a fess gules' - possibly the shield of the Cliffords, Robert and Roger (cf. Ashley 2002, 11; ref. 58)There is a projecting arm extending from one corner of …
Subject
- archaeology - MEDIEVAL
Type of item
- HARNESS HOOK
Medium
- Copper alloy
Subject
- archaeology - MEDIEVAL
Type of item
- HARNESS HOOK
Medium
- Copper alloy
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Creation date
- 1200
- 1200
Places
- United Kingdom; Essex; Tendring
Identifier
- ESS-4E6152
Year
- 1200
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2016-04-19T11:28:00.345Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2016-07-12T16:22:59.169Z