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Description - a cast in one piece, copper alloy fob type pendant.
It has a plain rectangular handle, with a suspension loop. The base
is severely damaged, at least 60 percent of it is missing, but there
is enough left to be fairly sure, that when it was complete, it was
an openwork Trumpetenmuster ornament, consisting of a triskele and
co-joined trumpets.
There are other recorded examples, which have a circular
base and a central openwork triskele design, with the remains of
enamelling within the centre of the base.
Measuring: height 39mm, the remains of the base 20mm
widest. The square tapering handle measures widest 7mm, narrowest
6mm; loop 15mm.
There are now, at least, ten examples of these pendant
fobs recorded. One of them is illustrated in the drawing below.
It has a design described as: S-coil plump and broken back scroll.
No one is sure about the purpose of the pendant fobs.
It has been suggested that they were once used as pottery stamps,
or for the application of dye to cloth. This is unlikely, due to
fact that some examples have the remains of enamelling on the base.
The photograph shows the pendant fob, from the 1st
or 2nd century AD, as found by a member of the WDRH, in West Yorkshire,
January 2001.
description - Jim Halliday.
illustrations - Anne Hodgson.
with thanks.
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