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The vessdel is said to have been broad like a basin with an ornamented circular edge turned downwards. The vessel was covered with a leather bag, which vanished immediately due to the air contact.
Silver spoon (fragment of bowl) The spoon is made of fairly thin silver and is much distorted where it has been broken or cut across. The bowl appears to be of oval rather than pear-shaped form and has a distinctly thickened rim. It is decorated on the interior with a crude engraving showing a reclining animal to the left with a small tree or other plant in front of it; as the break cuts across the animal's body just behind the forelegs, identification of its species is made particularly difficult. It seems most likely that the animal is a deer, although it remains unclear whether it is a typical deer or a marine creature with deer-like foreparts. The fan-like form above the creature's back could be the tail fin of a fish-shaped body.
Length 8.1 cm; breadth 2.1 cm; weight 117.55 g . The surface very irregular and apparently hammered.
Breadth of hoop, 5 . 5 mm; bezel 6 mm square· weight 3. 35 g . Original diameter c . 2.25 cm. The ring has a plain, flat hoop, and a flat, square bezel with very simple engraved ornament consisting of a stylised long-legged bird in the centre surrounded by a border of dots . The ring has been intentionally broken and crushed.
Length 5. 4 cm; breadth 1 cm; weight 24 . 2 g. (Length of tongue excluding attachment bar , 4. 2 cm) . The tongue is thick and heavy , with a down-turned rounded tip, and is ornamented at each end with shallow rounded grooves. Traces of gilding survive on these decorated areas. The body of the tongue is D-sectioned, while the curved element which attached the tongue to its buckle has a rectangular section. This latter has been strained back and cracked at its point of attachment to the tongue , and has been fairly cleanly cut with a sharp instrument at the other end.
External diameter 1. 9 cm; internal diameter 1. 4 cm; we ight 2 . 4 cm . A plain ring with an octagonal cross-section. This section and the rather small size make it unlikely to be a finger-ring. The exact function of the ring cannot be determined, but it may have been a suspension ring, or one intended for attaching a chain to a piece of jewellery or other object.
Length 1 . 6 c m ; breadth 6 mm ; weight 0. 3 5 g. A small broken fragment of thin silver sheet, roughly rectangular in shape, and folded lengthways . It may have been part of a spoon or other silver vessel.
External diameter 1.8 cm; internal diameter 1.2 cm; weight 1.6 g. The bronze or brass ring has a lozenge-shaped section, and shows some irregularities which are likely to be due to wear .
External diameter 1.8 cm; internal diameter 1.2 cm; weight 1.4 g. The ring is of precisely the same size and form as the preceding one. The lighter weight is ac counted for by the fact that a small segment is missing, perhaps as a result of wear.
Original diameter c . 2 cm ; width of hoop 5 mm glass paste, length 1.2 cm, width 9 mm. The outer borders of the hoop are of beaded wire, terminating in spiral volutes which would have been attached to the box setting for the gem. Within the borders are two twisted wires, giving a plaited effect. The box setting is lost, but the oval blue glas s paste almost certainly belongs to the ring: it has a plain, highly polished convex surface.
Roberston dataset, imported by J. Mairat. IARCH dataset, AHRC funded University of Leicester and British Museum project. Imported and edited by M. Spoerri (June 2019 / Nov. 2024). Updated by C. Gazdac (June 2025).
