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Description: | Anglo-Saxon gilded cast copper alloy bell-shaped pendant. An elliptical garnet setting placed centrally towards the apex is flanked by a pair of Style I bird-like creatures. A suspension loop at the apex has a diameter of 6.73mm. The reverse is plain. The Style I artwork suggests a date for this pendant in the 6th century.Similar bell-shaped pendants are known from Suffolk (MacGregor and Bolick 1993, p.162, no.25.6), Barrington in Cambridgeshire (op. cit.,p.163, no.25.7), Brighthampton in Oxfordshire (op. cit., p.163, no.25.8), Baginton in Warwickshire, from Chessel Down, grave 85 on the Isle of Wight (Arnold 1982, 68, fig. 18) and from Kingsworthy, grave 77 in Hampshire (Chadwick, Hawkes and Grainger 2004, 76 and 108). Examples are recorded by the Portable Antiquities Scheme from Hampshire (HAMP3442), East Sussex (SUR-6FBE75) and Dorset (SOMDOR-A8DD87). A further example with triangular pseudo-inlay comes from Ludford, Market Rasen, Lincolnshire (Tania Dickinson, pers. comm.) and an unprovenanced example in Coventry museum with garnet or glass setting was published in 'The Searcher' (January 2002, 22 and August 2002, 15). Chadwick Hawkes and Grainger suggest that they are belt pendants or purse fittings but Tania Dickinson (pers. comm.) has suggested the possibility that they originally functioned as horse-harness trappings.
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