bracelet
- Museum number
- 1994,0408.18
- Description
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Gold bracelet with pierced and engraved decoration, consisting of alternating engraved circles and lozenges with floral or foliate pierced work in their centres and in the spandrels between them. The circles have engraved star patterns, and their centres have pierced rosettes. The lozenges contain stylized foliate patterns and a central quatrefoil. The hoop of the bracelet is flat, with half-round borders attached to the hoop with gold solder.
Bracelets 1994,0408.17-20 are two pairs with very similar designs, and may be regarded as a set of four.
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 60 - 66 millimetres
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Weight: 27.60 grammes
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Width: 19 millimetres (hoop)
- Curator's comments
- Bracelets from the Hoxne hoard
Roman Britain, buried in the 5th century AD
Found at Hoxne, Suffolk (1992)
The Hoxne (pronounced 'Hoxon') hoard is the richest find of treasure from Roman Britain. Alongside the approximately 15,000 coins were many other precious objects, buried for safety at a time when Britain was passing out of Roman control.
This unique collection of nineteen bracelets was tightly packed together in the ground in three groups which were first separated during the laboratory phase of the excavation. They include matching pairs and sets of four. The bracelets in pierced goldwork are of fine quality, as is the pair with figured scenes in relief.
One set of four, made of corrugated gold sheet, resembles a pair in the Thetford treasure.
- Location
- On display (G49/dc23)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1997 6-26 Jan, London, Christie's, Treasures for Everyone: Saved by the National Art Collections Fund
1994-1995 Oct-Jan, Ipswich Museum, The Hoxne Treasure
- Acquisition date
- 1994
- Acquisition notes
- not sure if the price is for both bracelets
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1994,0408.18
- Additional IDs
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Treasure/PAS number: T304 (Treasure number)
