Record ID: NMS-274C44
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Early Anglo-Saxon gold and garnet cloisonné circular domed object, perhaps a scabbard-button, or mount or stud from an unidentified object. It consists of a circular sheet back-plate with an outer border on the upper face formed from a single piece of thick, neatly beaded wire, within which a gold sheet, the lower part vertical before curving inwards, forms the edge of the originally domed upper face. Originally twelve cells were formed within the encircling gold sheet. A central quatrefoil tube is divided internally into four cells by vertical gold partitions (one of wh…
Created on: Friday 24th January 2014
Last updated: Friday 27th March 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'King's Lynn', grid reference and parish protected.