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Description: | Description: An incomplete early Anglo-Saxon gold circular domed mount, now missing its setting which was probably originally of garnet. It consists of a circular sheet back-plate onto which is fixed a strip collar, angled inwards to form the lower part of a shallow dome. The join between the two is covered by a border of beaded wire c. 1mm in diameter, now extremely worn.Through the c.5mm diameter central opening within the collar is a waffle imprint on a piece of gold foil over the backplate. The pattern consists of squares divided by ridges, sub-divided into further tiny square indentations; one row has 3x3 tiny indentations, but others have 3x4. This use of one piece of stamped foil suggests that the central setting was a single large garnet, the foil used to reflect light through the transparent stone.On the reverse it can be seen that the backplate is torn in the centre, with a central square hole c.2x2mm through which the reverse of the stamped foil can be seen. The backplate also carries a matt black residue over much of the surface.Dimensions: It measures approximately 10.1mm in diameter (10.26 x 10.06) and is 2.14mm thick; it weighs 0.64g.Discussion: Similar gold settings were used as studs on objects such as brooches or pendants; see NMS-274C44, WMID-C02AF3, SF-CB7620, NARC-05D4C1, NARC-05D4C1, PAS-E9BEA3 and PAS-A78288. Others, especially with relatively large holes in their backplates, are likely to have been scabbard-buttons, originally with long loops on the reverse; see NARC-77D046, NARC-2CE634 and NMS-Z32B24.Most recorded so far on the PAS database have had complex cloisonné settings and have been considerably larger than this example, at 15-20mm diameter. It is difficult to be precise about this example's function, but it clearly had a great deal of wear during its life.Date: The use of waffle-stamped foil and beaded wire dates this object to the late 6th or 7th centuries AD.
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