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Record ID: SF5196
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gold casing for a pyramidal scabbard mount in the form of a truncated pyramid, decorated with filigree zoomorphs on each face and a square-cut plate garnet at the apex. The casing is made from four sheets of gold, soldered edge to edge, with the joins on the display surface disguised by worn beaded filigree.
Each of the four faces is ornamented with a single knotted snake-like zoomorph within a fine beaded filigree border. The zoomorphs are arranged in pairs and their bodies are made of triple-strand beaded filigree. The pairs are different in both form and execution, as if mad…
Created on: Monday 9th April 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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This findspot is known as 'Near Bury St Edmunds', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF4139
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gold and garnet fragment, possibly half of a rather long biconical bead. A hollow cone in shape, it has a circumferential band of cloisonne garnets around both the wider and the narrower end, and four longitudinal bands of cloisonne garnets running between. The band around the wider end had perhaps eight rectangular garnets originally, set in cloisons (cells); three survive now and two of the cloisons are badly crushed. A strip of gold projecting from the edge of this crushed area may be part of the attachment to the other half of the bead, or part of a suspension loop if the object …
Created on: Thursday 7th December 2000
Last updated: Tuesday 29th January 2013
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'near Eye', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF4049
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
A pierced 7th-century early medieval pale gold sceat, Pada type (Pa III), c. 660-675.
Created on: Tuesday 5th December 2000
Last updated: Monday 11th September 2017
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'ESSEX LITTLE OAKLEY', grid reference and parish protected.
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