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Description: | An incomplete gold sheet panel decorated with filigree wire. The wire is laid out into two tapering fields with heavier beaded wire as a border. The two fields are filled with a balanced herringbone design made up of fine grade wires. These are set out in groups of four and six which are parallel to the beaded border. The lower edge of the panel is cut and the upper edge of the fragment is torn. The surviving length of the fragment is 25mm and the maximum width is 18mm.
The style of the filigree suggests that this tiny fragment is early Anglo-Saxon and its shape, with one torn edge at the broader end, suggests that it was once part of a larger sheet. Triangular sheet gold panels are found as inlays in high status buckles of the early seventh century, but these are more usually decorated with interlacing ornament (eg. buckles from Alton, Faversham, Wickhambreux, Sarre and Gilton, George Speake, ??Anglo-Saxon Animal Art and its Germanic Background??, plate 6, b-f, plate 7, a and b, Oxford 1980). Its style of ornament and lack of a border on the one cut edge may however suggest a different function. | Subjects: | Anglo Saxon | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Staves, Lisa - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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