Summary

Small undecorated hacksilver fragment, from Norrie's Law, Fife, 500 - 700 AD

Accession Number

X.2015.289.15

Other references

Original description

Alice Blackwell, note 07.12.2015: Small piece of slightly bent, undecorated silver with one original edge (rounded profile, similar to bangle fragments), one possibly cut edge and remainder breaks. One of 57 fragments in a small box labelled x.FC 26, and clearly part of the Norrie's Law hoard. Allocated temporary number 126.14 in 2012.

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

Image

None