2016
DOI: 10.1017/s0003581516000536
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The Gold and Garnet Chain From Isenbüttel, Germany: A Possible Pin Suite With Anglo-Saxon Parallels

Abstract: The ‘Isenbüttel gold necklace’, now in the Lower Saxony State Museum in Hanover, was found almost a century ago in Lower Saxony, an area with no history of early medieval gold finds or richly furnished burials. As no parallels are known for the object, scholars have long debated the dating, provenance and function of this unique loop-in-loop chain, with its animal-head terminals and garnet cloisonné. Recent excavations of Anglo-Saxon cemeteries dating to the seventh century have, however, added new finds to th… Show more

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