NMS Archaeology Object 25988: H.HX 39 - Fillet
Description
Summary
Thin flat gold fillet, tapers towards a round terminal pierced with a hole, it has a continuous embossed beaded border and a central spine of sixteen tiny embossed flowerlets stretching from two flanking single motifs to the terminal, found in St Ronan's Chapel, Iona, 1923: Scottish, second half of the 12th century
Accession Number
H.HX 39
Other references
Register number | 1923.625 |
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Original description
COLLECTIONS FROM HISTORICAL SITES. Half of thin fillet of gold 7 1/16" long, tapering from 7/16" in width at the centre to 3/16" at the end, decorated with rows of small pellets, weight; alsoa small fragment of same, 11/32" x 3/16", from St Ronan's Chapel Iona. Found by staff of HM Office of Works while removing loose earth from the south east corner of St Ronan’s Church, Iona in 1923. It was folded up and wedged inside a gold finger ring of Viking type.2. T. Deniozou note, 2011-03-11, Information taken from Glenn, Virginia, Romanesque & Gothic: Decorative Metalwork and Ivory Carvings in the Museum of Scotland, NMSE Publishing, Edinburgh, 2003: [One of] B1, C42, 41-2 [Angels, Nobles and Unicorns reference]. // The thin flat fillet tapers towards a round terminal pierced with a hole. It has a continuous embossed beaded border. A central spine of 16 tiny embossed flowerlets stretches from two flanking single motifs to the terminal. 3 // NOTES:1 Glenn 2001, 278; Ó Floinn 1983, fig 2.3, 5. // 2 Curle 1924, 109-10. // 3 See G1 for purpose and dating.
Associated person/people (e.g. excavator/former collection)
None
Discovery / field collection
Date of discovery
1923
Method (e.g. excavation)
Not recorded
Place (i.e. location of discovery)
Iona, Argyll, Scotland, Northern Europe
Grid reference
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Acquisition
Acquisition date
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Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)
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Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)
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