English: Medieval (13th to 14th century) heraldic copper-alloy object displaying the arms of Moleyns. It is flat and shield shaped (straight top, curved base) and both faces are decorated with a reserved cross moline with traces of gilding, and a broad red-enamelled stripe across the top which bears three lion or leopard heads. Their original colour is uncertain; the enamel has now decayed to a cream/yellow colour. The field around the cross is the same cream/yellow colour and is divided from the red stripe by a ridge. The lower edge of the object is indented due to an old break; the rest of the edges are slightly raised. There is no obvious means of attachment. The surface of the mount has a well developed brown patina. It measures 30.35mm long, 23.39mm wide, 2.95mm thick and weighs 11.6g.

The heraldic mount is possibly a type of harness fitting and is likely to date to the 13th to 14th centuries. The arms may be blazoned: (tincture of field unknown), a cross moline or on a chief gules three leopard's faces (tincture unknown)

Clive Cheesman (College of Arms) kindly identified the heraldry as belonging to a family of Moleyns (Moline, Molines, Molynes, Mullins). Papworth references this heraldry for the Leicestershire family called Molyne. The difference is that the chief is described as sable (black) whereas on the record object the chief is clearly gules (red). Cheesman notes that the traces of gilding on the cross is a little surprising, as one would expect the field to be white or gold, since the chief is red; might the traces in fact relate to the field?

Similar canting arms: Azure, a cross moline or--Adam MOLEYNS, Bp. of Chichester, 1445-50.

Any Worcestershire connections of the Moleyns family have not yet been confirmed. The object is published in The Coat of Arms (the journal of the Heraldry Society) vol. 10 (2014), p. 36.