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Description: | Description:Small circular gold pendant of seventh-century date, now missing its setting. The pendant has a gold backplate with very rough and ragged edges, to which an upright collar has been soldered. The collar would originally have held the setting in place, and is set at an angle suggesting that the setting was perhaps a cabochon-cut stone. The junction between the collar and the backplate is covered and concealed by a ring of very neatly made beaded gold wire 1.0mm in diameter; the beads are narrow ridges rather than globular spheres. The beaded wire circle is interrupted by the remains of the suspension loop, which was originally formed from an extension of the backplate but which is now almost completely missing; the tiny stub of projecting backplate has no decoration surviving. Close to this area, just to the left, the collar is broken and bent. Some flooding of the gold solder can be seen between the beaded wire and the collar, at the bottom of the pendant opposite the suspension loop.Dimensions: The pendant is 10.1mm in diameter, 2.3mm thick and weighs 0.47g.Discussion: This is a small example of a well-known 7th-century pendant type. It would probably originally have been set with a cabochon-cut garnet or piece of glass and worn with beads and/or other pendants on a necklace. Similar pendants on the PAS database include LIN-EDB856, SF-CD3B63 and DENO-494555, all of which are c. 15mm in diameter.Date: 7th century, 600-700 AD.
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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