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Description: | TREASURE CASE 2012 T592: A silver-gilt decorative fragment, possibly from an annular brooch, pendant or mount. The fragment has a plain curved band, terminating in a raised trefoil, possibly representing a leaf or flower. The band then divides into two branches with scalloped outer edges and straight inner edges. The reverse of the fragment is plain.Although it is unknown what this fragment was part of, it is possible that it was affixed to a large, ornately decorated brooch with protruding foliate or leaf design. See, for examples, Egan and Pritchard (1991), no. 1319 and PAS Record NMS-27A577. Two complete highly ornate examples showing leaf decoration in R. W. Lightbown, Medieval European Jewellery (1992), are plate no. 29 (from the Bargello National Museum, Florence) and plate no. 121 (from the Victoria and Albert Museum, 547-1897), both of which are thirteenth century examples.The fragment dates from the thirteenth to the fourteenth century.Dimensions: length 16.28 mm, width 7.77 mm, depth 1.37mm; weight 0.4 gr. In terms of age and as the object contains a minimum of 10% precious metal it qualifies as Treasure under the stipulations of the Treasure Act 1996.Naomi Speakman Curator of Medieval CollectionsMay 2013
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