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View full screenCurved fragment of hacksilver decorated with two panels of incised hatched lines, drilled dots and punched circles, from Norrie's Law, Fife, 500 - 700 AD
X.FC 64
6th - 7th century
Early Medieval
Curved fragment of silver decorated with incised hatched lines, drilled dots and punched circles. No original edges are preserved. Parts of two decorated panels either side of a plain area bordered by a row of punched circles (giving an effect similar to a beading) survive. The decorated fields consists of straight and crossing incised lines forming narrow triangles or bisected lozenges within the widest part of each of which is a drilled dot flanked on two sides by a punched circle; three registers of decoration are preserved. The full length of one decorated panel survives (L 12mm) indicating that it is a similar size to the undecorated area (L 10.5mm) separating it from the next panel. The fragment now has an uneven profile (as on x.FC 48), with one edge more curved than the other but neither appears to be original so this is unlikely to be a true reflection of the shape of the original object.
Norrie's Law, Largo, Fife, Scotland, Northern Europe
Landowner: Durham, James, General, 1754 - 1840
Reporter: Buist, George, 1805 - 1860
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