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Talk
13 May 2022, 17:30 - 18:30VENUE INFORMATION
British Museum
Great Russell Street
WC1B 3DG
Gold Work of the Stonehenge Era and Beyond
Mary-Ann Ochota chairs an expert panel celebrating the goldsmiths of the Stonehenge era and the beautiful objects they created. They discuss objects such as the 3,000-year-old sun pendant discovered in the Shropshire Marches in May 2018, a masterpiece of European Bronze Age gold work.
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Mary-Ann Ochota chairs an expert panel celebrating the goldsmiths of the Stonehenge era and the beautiful objects they created. They discuss objects such as the 3,000-year-old sun pendant discovered in the Shropshire Marches in May 2018 by an anonymous metal detector user.
Also known as a ‘bulla’, this sun pendant is the most significant piece of Bronze Age gold metalwork found in over a century in Britain, and the only example of a British bulla that we currently have. A masterpiece of European Bronze Age gold work, it is evidence of the importance of the sun in people’s beliefs and cosmology during this period.
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Image credit: Bronze Age sun pendant, 1000–800BC © The Trustees of the British Museum.
