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LOT 1760
Medieval Gilt Bronze Knight's Heraldic Horse Harness Pendant with Thistle
14TH-15TH CENTURY A.D.
1 5/8 in. (13.2 grams, 42 mm).
Comprising a hanger of five lobes with red and blue enamelled field and reserved thistle motif, pierced at the lower lobe, set within a frame of arches with interstitial spurs and a pierced lug above.
ProvenanceFound Romney Marsh, Kent, UK.
LiteratureCf. Ashley, S., Medieval Armorial Horse Furniture in Norfolk, East Anglian Archaeology 101, Dereham, 2002, item 231, for arms.
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LOT 1760
Medieval Gilt Bronze Knight's Heraldic Horse Harness Pendant with Thistle
Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
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Medieval and Other Mixed Copper-Alloy and Iron Artefact Group
15th century A.D. and otherEstimate: £150 - 200 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £60
Comprising complete and fragmentary artefacts including: lock elements; shackles; balance arms; horse bits; keys; knives; arrowheads; scythes; axeheads and musket balls, together with other miscellaneous items. 16.4 kg total, 1-39 cm
Acquired 1990s-early 2000s. East Anglian private collection. -
Medieval Iron Rowel Spur Collection
Circa 13th-14th century A.D.Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £40
Comprising examples of various types, including some retaining the rowel. 217 grams total, 11.5-14.8 cm
Acquired 1990s-early 2000s. East Anglian private collection.
The deep curve of the shoulders, the lack of protrusion above the base of the rowel holder, the short rowel holder and the small diameter rowel are characteristics that point to dating some of this specimens in the 13th century. Kirpichnikov puts these spurs in type V (first half of the 13th-14th century) after a spur depicted on an English tombstone dating to the beginning of the 14th century. -
Large Medieval Bronze Ecclesiastical Seal Matrix
14th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £260
Depicting a female saint at the centre, standing right on a bird, uncertain inscription in right field, enigmatic surrounding legend: 'S : FRIS : ROPOAYM POR : DE NORTOR/E'; suspension loop and rib to reverse; accompanied by a museum-quality impression. 16.8 grams, 41 mm
Found by eye in Widford Parish in the 1970s, next to the old Salt Way to the Royal Parish of Bampton, Oxfordshire, UK. Accompanied by a print out about Widford and the church of St. Oswald, Oxon.
