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| title = Forsbrook Pendant |
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| year = 7th century AD |
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| type = [[Pendant]] |
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The '''Forsbrook Pendant''', is an item of Anglo-Saxon jewellery found in [[Forsbrook]], Staffordshire, England and sold to the [[British Museum]] in 1879.<ref name="Raven">{{cite book|last=Raven|first=Michael|title=A Guide to Staffordshire and the Black Country, the Potteries and the Peak|year=2005|location=Ashley, Market Drayton|isbn=0906114330|pages=142–143}}</ref><ref name="CVW">{{cite web|url= http://forsbrook.dyndns.org/pendant.php |title= Forsbrook Village, Stafforshire |last=Halliwell |frist= Richard |work= Community Village Website] |accessdate= 29 December 2012}}</ref> |
The '''Forsbrook Pendant''', is an item of Anglo-Saxon jewellery found in [[Forsbrook]], Staffordshire, England and sold to the [[British Museum]] in 1879.<ref name="Raven">{{cite book|last=Raven|first=Michael|title=A Guide to Staffordshire and the Black Country, the Potteries and the Peak|year=2005|location=Ashley, Market Drayton|isbn=0906114330|pages=142–143}}</ref><ref name="CVW">{{cite web|url= http://forsbrook.dyndns.org/pendant.php |title= Forsbrook Village, Stafforshire |last=Halliwell |frist= Richard |work= Community Village Website] |accessdate= 29 December 2012}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 21:09, 29 December 2012
Forsbrook Pendant | |
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Year | 7th century AD |
Type | Pendant |
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Dimensions | 28 mm diameter (1.1 in) |
Location | British Museum |
Owner | British Museum |
The Forsbrook Pendant, is an item of Anglo-Saxon jewellery found in Forsbrook, Staffordshire, England and sold to the British Museum in 1879.[1][2]
Description
The 28 millimetres (1.1 in) diameter pendant comprises a 7th century ring enclosing a gold solidus (coin) of Valentinian II (375-392 AD); whose obverse is displayed.[2] The coin is surrounded by garnets and blue glass, on a cross-hatched gold foil background.[2]
The coin was about 200 years old, when the pendant was made.[2]
Discovery and accession
The pendant was found by a labourer who was maintaining a hedge at Forsbrook in Staffordshire.[2] A 'young lady' took it to Isaac Whitehurst of Swan Bank, Congleton, an he wrote to the British Museum, whose receipt, dated 28 June 1879, is for £15. The museum's accession number is 'M&LA 1879.7-14.1'.[2]
Replica
Stoke-on-Trent Museum and Art Gallery have a replica, commissioned in 1977, accession number K36.1977.[2]
References
- ^ Raven, Michael (2005). A Guide to Staffordshire and the Black Country, the Potteries and the Peak. Ashley, Market Drayton. pp. 142–143. ISBN 0906114330.
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- Ozanne, A. 1962-3 The Peak Dwellers', Medieval Archaeology 6-7, 15-52
- Speake, G. 1970 'A Seventh-century Coin Pendant from Bacton', Medieval Archaeology 14, 1-16
- Victoria County History, Staffordshire, Vol. I 1908