Gold pendant set with lapis lazuli or glass

Details

• Title

  Gold pendant set with lapis lazuli or glass

• Associated people

  the Reverend James Douglas (1753 - 1819) (excavator)

• Associated place

  Europe › United Kingdom › England › Kent › Medway › Chatham › Chatham Lines (found in a grave with a copper alloy ring; iron knife) (place of excavation)

• Date

  Anglo-Saxon Period (AD 400 - 1066)

• Material and technique

  glass, gold, lapis lazuli

• Material index

  processed material › glass;

  processed material › metal › gold;

  inorganic › mineral › lapis lazuli

• Object type

  personal ornament › jewellery › pendant

• Dimensions

  1.5 cm (length)
  0.9 cm (width)

• No. of items

  1

• Credit line

  Presented by Sir Richard Colt Hoare, from the collection of the Reverend James Douglas, 1829.

• Museum location

  not on display

• Museum department

  Antiquities

• Accession no.

  AN1993.21

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