ornament

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Description

Summary: Fragment of a Roman sheet gold leaf ornament, dating to c. AD 300 - 400. It is made from a single sheet of gold cut into a leaf shape, with six pairs of radiating veins incised into the metalwork. Similar examples, made in copper-alloy, silver and gold have been found on votive sites - temples and shrines - in Gloucestershire, Surrey, Suffolk and Norfolk. This ornament may have functioned as one of a series of mounts for a ritual headdress. Found in Ogbourne St Andrew, 2021.


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