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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 8192799, member: 110504&quot;]A pretty astounding array, guys.&nbsp; By way of punting, here&#039;s a c. 13th-early 14th-c. harness pendant, found in Norfolk.&nbsp; (You could look at this for some context: )</p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-very-heraldic-weekend.388184/#post-7971125" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-very-heraldic-weekend.388184/#post-7971125">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-very-heraldic-weekend.388184/#post-7971125</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1434725[/ATTACH]</p><p>The arms, three cinquefoils, are distinctive enough to narrow the options for attribution, given that there&#039;s no enamel and virtually no gilt left.&nbsp; In hand (you&#039;ll probably just have to trust me), there&#039;s jeeYust enough gilt (/or) in one of the cinquefoils (pierced) to be within range of clinching it as belonging to the Bardolfs, prominent landholders there.&nbsp; (Cf. Humphery-Smith, Anglo-Norman Armory Two, p. 449; cf. 448.)</p><p>They&#039;re probably best known for having briefly taken the Montfortian side in the &#039;Barons&#039; War.&#039;&nbsp; This is is their caput, Wormegay Castle, which apparently (this was a surprise) was never upgraded from timber to masonry:</p><p><a href="http://www.gatehouse-gazetteer.info/English%20sites/2002.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.gatehouse-gazetteer.info/English%20sites/2002.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.gatehouse-gazetteer.info/English sites/2002.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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