From Dunbar, East Lothian
This fragment of a gold and garnet cross was found at Dunbar in East Lothian. It is a high quality and expensive jewelled cross, probably worn as a pendant by a bishop or abbot. The cross was made sometime between 600 and 650.
The garnets are set in gold cloissoné, where cells are formed with textured gold leaf at the bottom. The outside is bordered by gold filigree.
The Northumbrian Angles controlled the southeast Lowlands in the seventh century. The archaeological evidence of this event consists of monumental sculpture and some high quality metalwork in an Anglian technique such as this one.
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