Record ID: BH-16AE53
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Published
Roman gold lunular ear-ring. The decorative part comprises a flat crescent-shaped piece of sheet gold, decorated with applied filigree wire. Forming a border around the outer edge runs a section of rilled wire (c. 1.1mm thick), with each crescent terminal decorated with a single gold bead. The inner field is decorated with thinner rilled wire (c. 0.5mm) curled into spirals, comprising two back-to-back crescents, with ends rolled back, and two larger more complex loose spirals filling the rest of the field. Originally, the returns on the ends of the spirals were set with spherical gree…
Created on: Friday 23rd April 2010
Last updated: Friday 28th December 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stagsden', grid reference and parish protected.