badge
- Museum number
- 1855,0625.15
- Description
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Open-work badge or mount in the form of a circle containing five roundels of equal size and a central polygon. All borders are decorated with beading and the space between them is decorated with a trefoil. Each roundel and the central polygon enclose a figure engaged in agricultural work associated with the iconography of the labours of the months.At the top a stooping figure appears to be picking fruit from a tree. Moving clockwise, the next roundel depicts a figure with a sack around his neck; he is probably sewing seed. The subsequent roundel shows a man threshing and naked from the waist up. The next shows either the wheat or hay harvest and the last, while less legible due to damage, may show a man beating trees to shake down pig mast such as acorns or beech nuts. The central polygon shows a man and a pig.
- Production date
- mid 14th century (cira)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 53 millimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1855
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1855,0625.15
