Finds Tray – Silver pendant

This is a medieval or early post-medieval silver pendant, set with jet, which was found last August by a metal-detectorist near Bletchingley in Surrey. It is probably a pilgrim souvenir dating to c.AD 1400-1550. The pendant comprises a silver, scallop-shaped backing plate with a cable-style border and leaf-shaped projections which hold the stone in place. The suspension loop is missing, but a solder scar remains at the top of the rear of the plate where it would have once been. The stone is also scallop-shaped and carved in a deep relief of a stylised shell with the figure of St James the Great (the Apostle) superimposed over it. St James is represented quite simply with lines represe