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Description: | A gold 'bulla' pendant of early Anglo-Saxon date. The pendant is circular with a domed centre. The reverse was also domed, but both faces are now dented. A suspension loop is wide and flat and is decorated with two longitudinal grooves, leaving the edges and the centre of the strip raised. The pendant was made from a single piece of sheet metal which was cut into the shape of two circular discs joined by the band now forming the suspension loop. It is likely the grooves on the loop were added next, along with the domes being formed, and then the loop was bent round a form, bringing the two discs against each other. One disc was slightly larger and had triangles clipped from the edge to leave serrated triangular teeth. These have then been crimped round the edge of the second disc to join the two discs, leaving a hollow space between the two domes.Bulla pendants were in use in the second half of the seventh century AD and can either be domed on both sides, or more commonly have a flat backplate and a domed front. They are uncommon metal-detector finds, being relatively flimsy. They were generally worn in combination with beads and/or other pendants on women's necklaces.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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