pendant
- Museum number
- 2006,1002.1
- Description
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Gold disc pendant: edged with beaded filigree wire with a second inner band of beaded filigree wire; empty central setting surrounded by beaded wire collar from which springs a broad cruciform motif with arcaded terminals; fields of outer register and inner register are decorated with tightly coiled S-scrolls and figure-of-eight motifs; crumpled and torn to the right of ribbed suspension loop; loose glass cabochon.
- Production date
- 7thC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 30 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- The pendant belongs to a type that is widespread in the second half of the seventh century and it would originally have formed part of a high status necklace (cf. the early seventh century necklace from Sarre, Kent, mounted with gold solidi, Leslie Webster and Janet Backhouse, 'The Making of England', London 1991, cat. no. 31). The motifs on these disc pendants vary widely, but generally are executed in beaded filigree wire around a central setting containing either a small cabochon or a plate garnet. Occasionally the stone is enclosed in a calcitic collar (eg. one of the four disc pendants found in grave 93, Bosshall, Ipswich, Webster and Backhouse op. cit., cat. no. 33b). Many pendants are decorated with cruciform elements, S- and figure-of-eight scrolls: the Bosshall assemblage (above) offers good parallels for the decoration of this pendant (Dr Anna Gannon).
Surface analysis indicated a gold content of approximately 55%.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2006
- Acquisition notes
- Metal detector find.
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 2006,1002.1
- Additional IDs
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Treasure/PAS number: 2004T193 (Treasure number)