Object number
1996.95.11
Description
Copper alloy, gilt, disc. Front has a single field with highly stylised Salin style I animals with triple strand bodies surrounded by a ring. Back has, on one side, remains of a small plate riveted in place with part of the iron rivet in situ, second rivet hole alongside with traces of iron corrosion around its perimeter; at opposite side complete rivet hole with remains of a further two holes. Found left of jaw of Burial 13, an adult, at an Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Lower Farm, Bishop's Cleeve, Gloucestershire. Excavated by Kenneth Brown of Cheltenham Museum in July 1969.
Date
525 - 600
Production period
6th century
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