Record ID: BH-12AF21
Object type: BRACTEATE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Published
Gold bracteate pendant, buckled and distorted but complete. The pendant takes the form of a thin gold disc, with no framing wire surrounding the disc and no evidence for one ever being present. The central motif has been stamped with a matrix (the obverse is more sharply defined than the reverse). It is not symmetrical and not easy to decipher, partly due to creases being difficult to distinguish from deliberate decorative motifs. The following description is only an attempt to distinguish the different features: Left of the loop (at 10 o'clock) a circular animal head is shown with…
Created on: Thursday 26th July 2012
Last updated: Monday 7th April 2014
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