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Mid Saxon: Silver wire slip knot ring fragments
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Birmingham Museums Trust, Teresa Gilmore, 2012-07-26 14:36:38
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Mid Saxon: Silver wire slip knot ring fragments
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English: Early Medieval: One complete and three partial silver wire links from a necklace of 7th Century AD dating.

The complete link is sub circular in plan, with the ends fastened in a slip knot style. Each end is wrapped around twice. Three zones of incised parallel line decoration are present on the internal edge of the link. The wire has a circular section.

The complete link measures 25.75mm in length and 21.77mm wide. The wire has a diameter of 0.84mm. It weighs 0.6 grams.

The three partial links consists of one pieces of wire bent in a semi circle and two small fragments. The larger fragment measures 17.37mm in length, 6.29mm wide and has a diameter of 1.26mm. In total all three weigh 0.7 grams.

Sue Brunning (Early Medieval Curator, British Museum) has identified it as a small slip-knot rings, which are well-known from C7th A-S graves, as part of necklaces.

The wire links were recovered during the processing of a bulk environmental sample taken from a pit fill. Other finds recovered from the pit fill include a sherd of possible Saxon pottery, a biconvex red ceramic bead and some disarticulated pieces of human bone.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Milton Keynes
Date between 600 and 700
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FindID: 512522
Old ref: WMID-544058
Filename: 2012T513_2400_240_silver_fragments.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/389844
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/389844/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/512522
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