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Description: | A heavily-cast openwork circular harness-pendant 35mm in diameter, with a long cast-in suspension lug at 90 degrees to the plane of the pendant. (The lug is 14mm long and swells to 8mm thickness where it is pierced for suspension.). The ornament of the disc consists of two zones. The outer is engraved with chevron markings between two concentric rings defining the zone. The inner zone consists of a six-pointed rosette or star with long radial arms around a central pellet, and each arm has an engraved median groove, The spaces around the arms are pierced, creating an openwork effect, but the casting has become clogged here through superfluous metal, making the effect incomplete. The inner circle or zone is slightly off-centre to the outer. Probably of period 1100-1300.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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