Gold rectangular plate as shown in Ancient Wiltshire, Vol.1
On display in the Wiltshire heritage Museum, Devizes.
Stourhead Collection – Accession number: DZSWS:STHEAD.53
Plaque / ornament
1 ornament (?) of thin gold leaf, engraved with chevron and parallel lines in bands with cross-hatched lines forming margins, originally covering a plate of wood, found with a secondary (?) cremation in bowl barrow Upton Lovell G2e, excavated by William Cunnington
Length 144 mm; width 68 mm; height 2 mm
For a colour picture see –
wiltshireheritagecollections.org.uk/index.asp?page=image&id=41192
Image credit: Sir Richard Colt-Hoare, 1810, Ancient Wiltshire, Vol.i, p.99
