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Pendant
Artist: Anglo-Saxon
Location: The Collection: Art and Archaeology in Lincolnshire
Date: 5th Century
Materials: gold & garnet
Dimensions: 2.5 x 2cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £10,000 (Total: £22,000)
Vendor: Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Review number: 5563 (2005)
Provenance:
Discovered in Horncastle, Lincolnshire by a metal detector user in 2003 and declared Treasure.
Description:
The pendant is inlaid with garnets and in the form of an insect, probably a cicada. The tope of the pendant is filled with a single garnet cut to represent a highly stylised zoomorphic head, the eyes and mouth represented by two semicircular cells and one triangular cell. The wings of the insect are decorated with scale-like cells.
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