Ferret

Saint-Dizier (52) - Musée Municipal

© Musée de Saint-Dizier, C. Philippot

Simple ferret of elongated form made of a silver plate, decorated with an engraved decoration of horizontal stripes at the top underlining a guilloche edge. The middle part is decorated with small engraved points. A rivet is preserved. It is intended to fix the silver plate to another, missing. Observations : Engraved decoration on the face. The reverse is a copper alloy plate. This object is complete.

Where to find it

Saint-Dizier (52) - Musée Municipal
17 rue de la Victoire

52100 Saint-Dizier

Commune of discovery

Saint-Dizier

Locality

La Tuilerie

Type of intervention

Excavation

Year of excavation

2002

Chief Scientist

TRUC, Marie-Cécile

Inventory number

2006.8.33

Scope

Daily life ➔ Clothing

Materials

Metal ➔ Silver ➔ Metal ➔ Copper alloy

Dating the object

470 – 640

Dimensions

L. 2.4 cm, l. 0.8 cm, P. 0.05 cm, 1.04 g

Bibliographie

Marie-Cécile Truc (dir.), Saint-Dizier « La Tuilerie » (Haute-Marne), Trois sépultures d’élite du vie siècle, Caen, Presses universitaires de Caen, 2019, 304 p