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Description: | Bracteate consisting of a gold sheet disc with a worn rim of milled wire soldered to the edge and repousse zoomorphic decoration. A suspension loop of ribbed strip is folded round the rim and passes through a rough slot at the top of the disc. The decoration consists of four radiating loops with median grooves and a figure-of-3 motif on the right. The two lower loops end in feet with single claws and the loop at the top is in the form of a reversed C, apparently representing the head, neck and legs of a disintegrated animal design. This is an example of a D-type bracteate, and the devolved design of the zoomorphic ornamentation suggests that it was probably manufactured in Kent rather than Scandinavia. Surface metal analysis at the British Museum indicated an approximate gold content of 89%. | 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: | 500
550 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Andrew Richardson | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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