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Description: | CORONER'S REPORTAn incomplete Roman silver crescentic pendant. Description of Find The pendant comprises an ovoid penannular ring, of circular cross-section, with simple knobbed terminals (now touching) at the end of the tapered arms and a broken tubular mount on the opposite outer edge. The mount may have joined the crescent to a once more elaborate pendant but more likely it was a relatively simple collar for suspension from a necklace chain.DiscussionFour similar pendants were found in the jeweller's hoard at Snettisham, Norfolk, dating to AD c. 154/5 (Johns, 1997, p. 113, nos. 320, 321, 322 and 323). Crescents and lunulae were regarded as powerful amuletic devices and are found very commonly on Roman jewellery and on many other objects.
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