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Description
The 36 millimetres (1.4 in) diameter pendant comprises a 7th-century ring enclosing a gold solidus (coin) of Valentinian II (375-392 AD). The coin, whose obverse is displayed, is surrounded by garnets and blue glass, on a cross-hatched gold foil background. The outer edge of the ring is in the form of a double-headed serpent.
The coin was over 200 years old when the pendant was made.
Discovery and accession
The pendant was found by a labourer who was maintaining a hedge at Forsbrook in Staffordshire. A 'young lady' took it to Isaac Whitehurst of Swan Bank, Congleton, and he wrote offering it for sale, to the British Museum, who accepted, and whose receipt, dated 28 June 1879, is for £15. The museum's accession number is 'M&LA 1879.7-14.1'.
Replica
Stoke-on-Trent Museum and Art Gallery have a replica, commissioned in 1977, accession number K36.1977.
References
- Raven, Michael (2005). A Guide to Staffordshire and the Black Country, the Potteries and the Peak. Ashley, Market Drayton. pp. 142–143. ISBN 0906114330.
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- Ozanne, A. 1962-3 The Peak Dwellers', Medieval Archaeology 6-7, 15-52
- Speake, G. 1970 'A Seventh-century Coin Pendant from Bacton', Medieval Archaeology 14, 1-16
- Victoria County History, Staffordshire, Vol. I 1908