Ingot / silver

Description

Bar-shaped silver ingot, from Clatchard Craig, Fife, 500 - 800 AD

Museum reference

X.HHC 121

Collection

Archaeology

Object name

Ingot / silver

Date

6th - 8th century

Materials

Silver

Physical description

Silver; bar-shaped; tapering very slightly to one end; faces concave and sides faceted; X-ray fluorescence analysis of the surface in 1981

Collection place(s)

Clatchard Craig, Abdie, Fife, Scotland, Northern Europe

References

Close-Brooks, J ‘Excavations at Clatchard Craig, Fife, ‘, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 116 (1986) 117-184; fiche 1, B1-C14

Links to other web pages

Canmore

On display

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