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Description: | Worn biconical spacer bead from a necklace, made from a single coiled length of beaded wire, the ends tapering and left unbeaded.
This singleton bead belongs to a growing family of necklace components, made in similar style, that came into fashion in the 7th century. It is best compared to the spacer beads on the necklace from Desborough, Northamptonshire (L Webster and J Backhouse, The Making of England, Anglo-Saxon Art and Culture, AD 600-900 (London, 1991), cat. no.13), which dates from the second half of the 7th century. The Desborough necklace is strung with a small, centrally placed equal armed cross, flanked by gold `bullae' alternating with garnet droplets. All the elements are separated by chubby biconical gold beads.
Dimensions and metal content:
Length: 17mm; weight: 1.96g. X-ray fluorescence analysis at the British Museum indicates an approximate gold content of 68 per cent.
Published in the Treasure Annual Report 2001, no. 74. BM treasure case: 2002 T95. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 600
699 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Daniel Pett | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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