File:Medieval Harness Pendant Suspension Mount (FindID 117804-87976).jpg

English: An elaborate horse harness pendant suspension mount, cast in copper alloy in several pieces and gilded. The pendant suspension mount is somewhat distorted but formerly consisted of an 'M' shaped mount, approximately 40mm wide by 45mm high, from which hung three separately cast pendants. The two outer pendants, both shield-shaped and around 28mm (including the suspension loops, which are turned through 90 degrees) by 17mm, survive in situ. The central pendant is missing, but a parallel (see below) suggests that this was a small bell rather than another shield. The mount would have been affixed to the harness by means of one or iron two rivets, one of which, at the top of the central stem of the mount, is still in situ. Around 9mm of its shank remains. The two side arms are plain with D-shaped cross sections, the rounded side facing forwards. At the distal end of each is a small hinge to which the shield-shaped pendants attach. The traces of the red enamelled decoration on the fronts of the shields form parallel vertical lines. The two shields do not appear precisely identical but this may reflect varying preservation of the enamel. The central part of the fitting is more elaborate. The upper part is flat, petal-shaped and is decorated with four cast vertical parallel lines. Below this is a square section with a central hole, presumably to accommodate another rivet. This may have been decorative or could suggest that the object was mounted onto a vertical piece of harness. Below this is the hinge for the missing pendant. The shape of this horse harness pendant is paralleled in Griffiths's Datasheet on Horse Harness Pendants (1986, p. 4, fig. 20).