- Museum number
- 1865,0318.1
- Description
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Gilt-copper alloy buckle: oval loop; originally silvered tongue transversely ribbed at ends and with a row of rectangular cloisonné garnets across hinge end. Deep rectangular plate with flat-topped central oval cabochon garnet in a cruciform arrangement of four stepped green glass lozenges in an all-over cloisonné garnet field of "omega" inlays in gold sheet cells in two rows on either side; in centre, a band of stepped trapezoids and triangles; six small rivets and a folded flap attachment; basal drum.
- Production date
- 5thC
- Dimensions
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Length: 9.70 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Comment from Kidd, Haith & Ager ‘Summary Catalogue’ (draft MS)
Provenance not recorded; Italian find spot in some accounts does not occur in early records nor in register; according to Sotheby's sale catalogue it was found in a grave with two finger rings (probably to be identified with nos. AF.493 and 494) and pair of gold earrings (which may be identified with no. AF.516); Braybrooke (1873, p. 51 no. 83), mentions circular fibula also from the grave, but this is now lost; the only other information is that the grave was found "on the Continent" (Braybrooke 1873, p. 57)
Purchased from Samuel Addington; acquired by him at sale of property of 'an amateur' held by Messrs S. Leigh Sotheby and John Wilkinson, London, 20th-21st January, 1857
Published:
SOTHEBY'S SALE CAT. 1857. Catalogue of a Valuable Assemblage of Antiquity and Works of Art, the property of an amateur which will be sold by auction by Messrs S. Leigh Sotheby and John Wilkinson, 10th Jan 1857. London, p. 13 lot 156
ROBINSON J.C. (ed) 1863. Catalogue of the special Exhibition of Works of Art....on Loan at the South Kensington Museum June 1862, revised ed. London, p. 730 no. 8,175
ADDINGTON S. 1865. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, March 2nd 1865, Proc Soc Ant. 2nd series III Nov 1864-June 1867, London, pp. 68-9 no. 3
FRANKS A.W. 1865. Account of additions to the Collection of British Antiquities in the British Museum during the year 1865, Proc Soc Ant second ser III, June 17 1864 to June 20 1867, London, p. 241
WARHURST A. 1955. The Jutish Cemetery at Lyminge, Archaeologia Cantiana LXIX, Maidstone, pp. 34-5 (wrong provenance)
WERNER J. 1958. Eine ostgotische Prunkschnalle von Köln-Severinstor. Studien zur Sammlung Diergardt II, Kölner Jahrbuch für Vor- und Frühgeschichte 3, Berlin, pp. 59- 60, pl. 7
ARRHENIUS B. 1971. Granatschmuck und Gemmen aus nordischen Funden des frühen Mittelalters, Acta Universitatis Stockholmensis, Studies in North European Archaeology Series B. Stockholm, pp. 82, 116-7, 217-8, 236 no. BM 7, fig. 94
BIERBRAUER V. 1975. Die Ostgotischen Grab- und Schatzfunde in Italien, Centro Italiano di Studi sull'Alto Medioevo, Studi Mediaevali VII. Spoleto, pp. 156-7, 356, pl. 63:4
ARRHENIUS B. 1977. Zur Chronologie des Granatschmucks, in G. Kossack and J. Reichstein (eds) Archäologische Beiträge zur Chronologie der Völkerwanderungszeit, Antiquitas series 3, no. 20, Bonn, pp. 103-5, fig. 1,2
BOSTON MUS. 1976. Romans and Barbarians, Catalogue of an Exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Dec 17th 1976 - Feb 27th 1977. Boston, p. 133 no. 156, pl. 156
BIERBRAUER V. 1979. Die Ostgoten in Italian, in H. Roth (ed) Kunst der Völkerwanderungszeit, Propyläen Kunstgeschichte Supplementband IV, Frankfurt, p. 161, fig. 71b
GRANT M. 1981. Dawn of the Middle Ages. London, p. 98 plate bottom left (wrong provenance)
ARRHENIUS B. 1985. Merovingian Garnet Jewellery, emergence and social implications, Kunglig Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademiens, Stockholm, pp. 120, 123, 203 nos. 42 and 49, p. 208 no. BM 7, figs. 61 and 102
- Location
- On display (G41/dc18/sC)
- Acquisition date
- 1865
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1865,0318.1