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Metal Detector Find

Event ID 1127568

Category Recording

Type Metal Detector Find

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1127568

NF 75 41 A silver wire object was recovered through metal-detecting. The object comprises a circular-sectioned wire shaped into a loop, the ends of which are twisted together and bent up at the tip. The object is 23.5mm in length, 11mm in width and weighs 0.4g. The object was found in proximity to the Norse settlement at Drinmore and may be early medieval in date. Similar twisted silver wire loops in the 9th century Hon Hoard appear to have functioned to attach beads to a necklace. However, copper-alloy twisted wire loops are well-represented from urban excavations in Scotland and England from contexts dating to the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries, and the date of the South Uist example must therefore remain uncertain. The copper-alloy versions have variously been interpreted as shroud or dress fastenings, as well as possibly strengthening elements for purses. It makes sense that an object of such simple form and function would be represented across a wide period.

Claimed as Treasure Trove (TT 145/19) and allocated to

Museum nan Eilean

Lydia Prosser – National Museums Scotland

(Source: DES Volume 21)

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