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Description: | An unusual incomplete copper-alloy pendant, incomplete due to old breaks now worn; about a third of the pendant is missing. It is circular, c.29mm in diameter, originally flat but now slightly bent. It is made from one thin sheet of copper alloy, with the suspension loop created by rolling an integral projecting rectangular strip of copper-alloy, which projects from the edge, backwards and under itself to form a hollow cylinder, through which a chain or any other means of suspension could have been threaded. The front of the pendant is decorated with a border of stamps, and within this border the face is divided into four quarters by a diagonal cross of stamps. The cross is aligned so that the suspension loop is towards one side of the upper quadrant of the cross, not centred on the quadrant. The stamp appears to be a semi-circle with a central dot, possibly a ring-and-dot stamp held at an angle, although the straight edge appears to be firmly angled and deliberately made. The front also has traces of a white-metal coating visible.
This pendant is most similar to early Anglo-Saxon scutiform pendants, although these tend to be made with central bosses. Scutiform pendants derive their form from model shields; a tinned copper-alloy example is known from Icklingham, Suffolk. They date from the sixth or seventh centuries AD. | 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
720 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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