© Copyright The Trustees of the British Museum
Pendant
Unknown Artist
- Art Funded
- 2005
- Dimensions
- 2.5 x 2 cm
- Vendor
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
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.
Provenance
Discovered in Horncastle, Lincolnshire by a metal detector user in 2003 and declared Treasure.