Warminster Jewel, Salisbury Museum, Salisbury

Warminster Jewel, 9th century AD, an amstel or manuscript pointer, found by a metal detectors in a field near Cley Hill, Warminster in 1997, in the Salisbury Museum, housing archaeological collections from Stonehenge and other local sites from prehistory to the present day, in The King's House, Cathedral Close, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. The amstel is made from rock crystal, set in a beaded wire frame of gold, with either a blue glass bead or a lapis lazuli cabochon (a gemstone that has been shaped and polished). The gold shaft would have held an ivory or wood pointer to be used as an aid to reading. Picture by Manuel Cohen

Restrictions Only for Ireland and United Kingdom and United States Of America

Amstel Cley Jewel Lapis Lazuli Pointer Salisbury Shaft Warminster

Features In These Collections

> Contributors > COH