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Description: | An apparently complete Late Medieval or Early Post-Medieval (1450-1700) gold pendant with a gemstone setting, in the form of a flower. The pendant comprises three parts; two layers of thin gold sheets, each representing five double petals, and a central mounted gem or glass setting with integral rivet (which passes through the two sheet layers).The surface of the upper (and smaller) group of five petals has rocker-arm decoration, and each double-petal is cut convexly at the end. The surface of the lower petal group has hammered decoration while to the reverse incised, scored straight lines radiate from the central rivet hole to the edges of the petals. These petals are also cut convexly at the ends.To the lower group of petals there is the addition of four, apparently soldered, gold wire loops (the wire being c.1mm diameter in cross-section and the loops c.2.6mm in diameter). Three are situated at the gaps between adjoining petals and at the convex edge of the central of these, and the fourth between two petals directly opposite to the central loop of the aforementioned three (this has a slightly wider diameter of 3.2mm). From this fourth loop (the ends of which do not join) is another gold wire loop, 1.3mm diameter in cross-section the loop 7.3mm diameter. Presumably this would have attached the pendant to a chain. The three further smaller gold loops suggest further ornaments may have hung from there.The central stone or glass, measuring 14.63 x 11.07mm, is dark red and oval in form, and set into a gold bezel with irregularly scalloped edges.The pendant measures 24.18mm in length, 22.79mm in width, is 11.79mm depth and weighs 5.19g.
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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