Gilmorton Beaker Basket Ornaments

Gilmorton Beaker Basket Ornaments
Gilmorton Beaker Basket Ornaments
Gilmorton Beaker Basket Ornaments
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18073
Title
Gilmorton Beaker Basket Ornaments
Description
Two gold 'basket' ornaments of Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age date (later third millennium BC) from Gilmorton.

These delicate and rare objects were found in Gilmorton, Harborough in 2006. They are among the earliest metal objects in Britain and are the oldest example of metalworking from Leicestershire.

These objects belong to a type of Copper age ornament known as 'Basket Ornaments', of which three main variants occur; these particular examples are of the style previously known only from Iberia and a 19th century find from Ireland. This particular style is therefore not native to Britain and no such examples have been previously found, all previous examples finds of basket ornaments from Britain having been of a different, insular variant. (Source of information: Stuart Needham, in Treasure Annual Report 2005/6, Object record 2, pp. 16-17)

Archaeology Collections, Collections Resources Centre, Barrow-on-Soar
LCC ID. No.
X.A242.2007
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Held at the Harborough Museum, Market Harborough
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