Description

Summary: Two gold pins with circular heads set with a small garnet, each pin being looped at the head to a tubular gold finial of a chain, having in its centre a circular medallion of dark glass set in gold with a cross of ornamental character engraved upon it, found beneath barrow on Roundway Down, near Devizes.

Research results

In 2000, Durham University, Sarah Semple and Howard Williams, undertook an excavation on the early medieval burial on Roundway Down (WAHNM 2001 - preliminary note). The finds archive, including human remains, are still at the university, awaiting further analysis and publication. Sarah Semple sent this update on 5th June 2023 - the project is now moving towards completion.