UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT

Unidentified gold object. It consists of an apparently solid truncated cone with concave sides (a bell shape), and a narrow tube set transversely on the top. The tube appears to be hollow (although now filled with soil) and is 10.5 mm long; it is basically 2 mm in diameter, but has a collar of beaded wire around either end and a line of similar beaded wire along the top. The wire is 0.8 mm wide; the beads are regular and rounded, and the bead-count per 2.5 mm is 7. The beads around the ends of the tube are very rubbed and worn, particularly towards the top, so that here they are almost flat. The underside of the tube has a slight carination along it, and in the centre is attached to the top of the cone. The upper part of the cone is decorated with three closely set circumferential grooves. It then flares out to a maximum diameter of 8.7-8.9 mm. The base is very slightly convex, and is decorated with two similar concentric grooves. Outside the outer groove is another faint groove; given the comparatively light weight of the object, this may be the seam between a hollow cone and a separate base. The object is very well made and presumably was suspended from a thread or wire running through the tube, thus causing the wear around the ends of the tube.