Summary

One of two joining pieces of thin silver sheet decorated along surviving original edges with a border of small circular raised dots, from Norrie's Law, Fife, 500 - 700 AD

Accession Number

X.FC 80

Other references

Original description

PERSONAL ORNAMENTS, &C. Small fragments, clippings, etc. Norrie's Law, near Largo, Fifeshire. [MoS description] Melting rocks, forging metal. Moving metal, recycling metal. Recycling Roman silver. (11) Chopped up silver, Norrie's Law. 500 - 700 AD. Alice BLackwell 23.07.2015, note: One of two joining pieces of thin silver sheet, originally part of a larger object, decorated along the two surviving original edges with a border of small circular raised dots. The two fragments were made into a hacksilver parcel – folds are clearly visible, though all now are unfolded. X.FC 80 is the larger of the two fragments, and three folds are visible: folded once along the width, then both thicknesses folded in at one corner, and one thickness folded in at the other corner. Both fragments show that the original object expanded along its length and had slightly curving sides, one more shallowly curved than the other, producing a shape suggestive of the expanded terminal of a penannular brooch such as x.FC 37. The non-joining edge of x.FC 79 is cut rather than broken along a fold – a long straight cut runs from the outer edge to the middle, and then what may be several shorter cuts complete the width; the section is smooth under magnification. This appears to be the case on the non-joining edge of x.FC 80 suggesting that (before broken into two separate fragments) they formed the entirety of a parcel, unless perhaps a further separate fragment or coin was sandwiched within the folds.

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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