Record ID: NMS-244527
Object type: STUD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Incomplete Early Saxon gold circular setting or mount with a domed cloisonné garnet setting. The object has a sheet gold back plate which exhibits a scar, with the remains of what may be a missing loop projecting from it. The back plate is framed by a beaded wire collar consisting of narrow, regular beads, some of which have been dented during deposition. Within the thick outer collar is a thinner inner collar consisting of two strands of gold wire twisted around one another, one plain wire and one beaded wire. The central circular setting has an outer strip bent inwards…
Created on: Wednesday 21st September 2016
Last updated: Thursday 16th March 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-FE0563
Object type: STUD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Circular gold stud or mount, inlaid with cloisonné garnets with curved tops to form a hemispherical domed boss. There are also detached fragments of garnet and gold foil, bagged separately. The object was originally built up on a gold sheet backplate, but this is now largely missing apart from a narrow strip around the edge. Onto this was fixed the cell walls, made from thin gold sheet, which form a central cross with a stepped or T-shaped cell at the end of each arm. There are therefore eight cells, one at the end of each arm and one in each of the …
Created on: Tuesday 25th January 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd March 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Norwich area', grid reference and parish protected.