Interesting Find!!:detecting:

[Robsfinds75]

I found this piece yesterday at my favorite castle ruin. I thinks its made out so a copper/Bronze material It was attached to something by a iron ring form the back. It also has patten of a hawk with its wings spread engraved on the front. I think it's maybe decoration from a horse saddle. The ruin where I found it at has over a thousand years of history so I'm unsure what time frame it's from. it was about 6 inches deep on the slope near the bottom of the hill.

 

[Butch in Colorado]

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[Ed SW Fla]

.... if it's fairly small ..... about an inch long, it may be a Heraldic pendent from the middle ages. Although they were normally suspended from the saddelry by a loop in the top like a medal.

Here is one my friend Keith found in the UK a few years back.
[attachment 63173 MedievalSaddleShield.JPG]

Not far from where Keith found his heraldic pendent, I found a brass or bronze 5 pointed star spur rowell. 5 pointed rowels are not common at all, very difficult to engineer / produce with the technology at that time and would have been made for someone "with means" ... like a Knight or an English Lord. It's one of my favorite finds.
[attachment 63174 spurroweledit100dpi.jpg]

 

[Robsfinds75]

Hey Ed its 2 inches long and 1 an half inches wide.

 

[Brian(upstateNY)]

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[Ed SW Fla]

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[Vernon in Virginia~Formerly Alaska]

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[General Ray]

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[Ed SW Fla]

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[brandon]

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[charlie (ky)]

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[Craig in Alabama]

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