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Description: | Early Early-Medieval silver gilt sword pyramid. It is truncated to give a square setting which is now missing. On the underside the object is hollow and measures 15x15mm. A 3.5mm wide band crosses from one side to the other, at the middle. The pyramid stands 8mm high and each face is decorated with incised lines and recessed triangular areas. Each pair of opposing faces has a slightly different design to the other pair. One has three traingles, one above and inverted, with incised lines set with niello. The other has four smaller triangles, one inverted above a row of three, within incised lines set with niello. On this face the remaining area is decorated with incised diagonal lines also set with niello. In the apex is a piece of thin gold sheeting, which would have added dimension to the stone (probably garnet) set on top of it. Each recessed triangle has traces of gilding. Weighs 3.53g and dates to 7th century. Cf a very similar example in the Treasure Annual Report 2001 no.59 from Kilham, East Yorkshire. | 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: | 601
700 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Katie Hinds | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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