Record ID: BH-443476
Object type: BRACTEATE
Broad period: MODERN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A modern gold pendant. The object consists of two gold discs with pressed images, replicating probably (the details have not pressed through clearly) coin obverses (i.e. the bust side only repeated to make two halves) of the emperor Maximian (AD 286-310), with a gold disc between and a beaded rim. Such mouldings in thin gold or silver foil taken from a coin 'host' are often termed clichés and were a technique known in antiquity to produce forgeries as well as a similar technique for 'bracteate' jewellery popular in Barbaricum (beyond the Roman frontier). Although both coins and br…
Created on: Thursday 27th March 2014
Last updated: Friday 2nd September 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South-East of Oxford', grid reference and parish protected.