Summary

Complete silver circular object with central repoussé boss and raised curved rim, from Norrie's Law, Fife, 500 - 700 AD

Accession Number

X.FC 27

Other references

Original description

PERSONAL ORNAMENTS, &C. Circular Disc of silver, much battered. Norrie's Law, near Largo, Fifeshire. Alice Blackwell note 20.04.2015: Complete silver circular object with central repoussé boss (now dented) and raised curved rim. It has clearly folded twice to make a narrow rectangular parcel, and subsequently unfolded. No visible method of attachment survives and there is no visible remains of solder. Scratches run around the outside of the boss and around the rim on the upper side. The silver is thicker and a more malleable alloy than the other (fragmentary) circular object from the hoard, x.FC 26. Analogy with an unusual bowl made from multiple pieces of sheet bronze from Ewelme (Oxfordshire) suggests a possible function as basal mount (Bruce Mitford 2005, no. 73, 232–34, figs 284, 285).

Associated person/people (e.g. excavator/former collection)

Durham, James, General, 1754 - 1840
Buist, George, 1805 - 1860

Discovery / field collection

Date of discovery

1819

Method (e.g. excavation)

Chance discovery

Place (i.e. location of discovery)

Norrie's Law, Largo, Fife, Scotland, Northern Europe

Grid reference

Not recorded

Acquisition

Acquisition date

1864

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Mrs Dundas Durham

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Donor

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