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\nThe\u00a0 thread measures approximatley 20mm long and has been cut from a gold foil sheet that was 96.595% pure. The strip was folded and used in a brocaded pattern with textile threads, probably worn in a head band across the brow or decorating the edge of a coif or hood. The band was tablet woven and the pattern was inserted during<\/em> weaving, not embroidered afterwards; the impressions of the textile threads can be clearly seen on the gold thread.
\nSimilar gold threads have been found in Kentish graves of a similar date at Monkton, Bifrons, Lyminge and Faversham and are probably of continental origin.<\/p>\n
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Brent, J. 1866. Account of the Societies Researches in the Saxon Cemetery at Sarr. Part 2 Archaeologia Cantiana VI,<\/em> 157-85<\/p>\n Brent, J. 1863 . Account of the Societies Researches in the Saxon Cemetery at Sarr. Archaeologia Cantiana V,<\/em> 305-22<\/p>\n Perkins, D. R. J. 1991. The Jutish Cemetery at Sarre Revisted: A Rescue Evaluation.\u00a0 Archaeologia Cantiana CIX<\/em>, 139-162<\/p>\n For more on the clothing of the Anglo Saxon period read Penelope Walton Rogers’ excellently researched and illustrated book:<\/p>\n Walton Rogers, P.\u00a0 2007. Cloth and Clothing in Early Anglo-Saxon England.<\/em> CBA Research Report 145, Council for British Archaeology: York.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today’s image is of a fragment of gold thread found in a mid to late sixth century grave at Sarre in 1990. The grave of an adult, probably a female, was disturbed in antiquity with the whole of the grave being emptied and backfilled. The\u00a0 thread measures approximatley 20mm long and has been cut from … Continue reading VM_365 Day 33 Gold threads<\/span>