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7th Century decorative glass mount in silver setting. Description of find
An Anglo-Saxon glass cabochon in a silver setting. The cabochon is made from green, translucent, bubbly glass, with three twisted, opaque, blue-and-white cable trails fused into its slightly pitted surface. The oval silver setting consists of a plain upstanding frame inside of a fine twisted cable border (0.7mm diameter). Approximately half of the back-plate is missing; the remainder is plain and very fragile. There is no obvious means of attachment, but the metal setting shows the remains of a possible tab on one of its rounded ends, perhaps representing an attachment hoop. Dimensions: 17 x 6mm. Weight 1.8g. Discussion
This setting is likely to represent an Anglo-Saxon pendant of a type popular in the 7th century. Pendants with cabochon-cut stones occur in women's graves of the period, and, although often made of garnet with gold mounts, glass with either silver or copper alloy mounts were also known. These pendants may represent the introduction of a Frankish custom, based on Mediterranean fashions. | 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
700 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Rachel Atherton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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