Gold Anglo-Saxon bracteate

An image of Jewellery/Bracteate. Gold, decorated with a concentric design of stamped chequered triangles, height 3.2cm, depth 2.8cm, circa 500-600. Anglo-Saxon. From 19th century excavations of a cemetery at the King's Field, Faversham, Kent.

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Jewellery/Bracteate. Gold, decorated with a concentric design of stamped chequered triangles, height 3.2cm, depth 2.8cm, circa 500-600. Anglo-Saxon. From 19th century excavations of a cemetery at the King's Field, Faversham, Kent.

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Accession Number: M.63-1904
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/29.0
Focal length: 100
Camera: Canon EOS 5D
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 1033 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Aperture 3.1.1
Filesize: 150.58kB
Exposure time: 1/100
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 29/1
Captured: 2008:05:13 13:49:20

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6th Century _WF_AdOK _WF_KWD _WF_OPAC AD Anglo-Saxon bracteate brooch circular concentric English Fitz_AA gold jewellery jewelry Kentish round stamped triangular

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