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LOT 1568
Medieval Knight's Bronze Royal Heraldic Horse Harness Pendant with the Arms of England
14TH-15TH CENTURY A.D.
1 3/4 in. (10 grams, 44 mm).
Of a heater shield form with the three lions of England reserved against a red enamel background, with suspension loop. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Cambridgeshire, before 1990.
Acquired on the UK market, 1999.
Property of a retired academic.
See Ashley, S., Medieval Armorial Horse Furniture in Norfolk, East Anglian Archaeology 101, 2002, no.67, for a very similar example.
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LOT 1568
Medieval Knight's Bronze Royal Heraldic Horse Harness Pendant with the Arms of England
Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
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Medieval Knight's Bronze 'Boroughbridge Roll' Heraldic Horse Harness Pendant
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Heater-shaped with suspension loop; low-relief armorial design blazoned 'quarterly per fess indented' attributed to the Sandford family of Gloucestershire. 7.48 grams, 36 mm
Acquired on the UK market, 1990s. Property of a retired academic.
The attribution of these arms appears in the Boroughbridge roll of arms, an armorial of knights in the host collected for the siege of Berwick in September 1319.
