Summary

Bronze mount with upper surface decorated with white and dark blue and black millefiori panels and yellow champleve enamel, from Cramond, Midlothian

Accession Number

X.FC 302

Other references

Original description

An enamelled bronze disc, 1.2 ins (30 mm) in diameter. Possibly a brooch. The central enamelled area has a cross motif composed of five panels with a chequer-board pattern in light and dark blue squares; the area between the arms of the cross filled with yellow enamel and the cross and whole enamelled area emphasised with thin line of turquoise enamel. Found in the churchyard, Cradmond, Midlothian. Anonymous note: 'Possibly' and 'brooch' deleted; 'd' in 'Cradmond' deleted. RMS note: Was FT 98 [taken from Continuation Catalogue]. See PSAS 119 (1989), 230-2

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

None

Discovery / field collection

Date of discovery

Not recorded

Method (e.g. excavation)

Not recorded

Place (i.e. location of discovery)

Cramond Churchyard, Midlothian, Scotland, Northern Europe

Grid reference

Not recorded

Acquisition

Acquisition date

1972

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Not recorded

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Donor

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