Hacksilver fragment

Description

Curved fragment of hacksilver decorated two decorated panels with incised hatched lines, drilled dots and punched circles, from Norrie's Law, Fife, 500 - 700 AD

Museum reference

X.FC 68

Collection

Archaeology

Object name

Hacksilver fragment

Date

6th - 7th century
Early Medieval

Materials

Silver

Physical description

Curved fragment of silver decorated with incised hatched lines, drilled dots and punched circles. No original edges are preserved. Parts of two decorated panels either side of a plain area bordered by a row of punched circles (giving an effect similar to a beading) survive. The decorated fields consists of straight and crossing incised lines forming narrow triangles or bisected lozenges within the widest part of each of which is a drilled dot flanked on two sides by a punched circle; two registers of decoration are preserved.

Collection place(s)

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

Associations

Landowner: Durham, James, General, 1754 - 1840
Reporter: Buist, George, 1805 - 1860

Exhibitions

• Scotland's Early Silver (13 Oct 2017 - 25 Feb 2018)
  National Museum of Scotland

• Celts (10 Mar 2016 - 25 Sep 2016)
  National Museum of Scotland

• Celts: Art and Identity (24 Sep 2015 - 31 Jan 2016)
  British Museum

Links to other web pages

Canmore Site Record