12-15-2016, 02:10 PM
They look like 'jinglers', a sort of metal decoration specifically for producing noise , the sort of thing you may see as decoration on horse trappings or standards( not specifically military) or even wind chimes, gives the same effect as tambourine discs.
Without context I think it's just guessing unless there are other examples with a bit of provenance somewhere.
Without context I think it's just guessing unless there are other examples with a bit of provenance somewhere.