Dinnington, gold earring

HER Number:
779

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Dinnington, gold earring

Place:
Dinnington

Map Sheet:
NZ27SE

Class:
Dress and Personal Accessories

Site Type: Broad:
Personal Ornament

Site Type: Specific:
Ear Ring

General Period:
Prehistoric

Specific Period:
Bronze Age

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
A gold earring was found in Dinnington in 1861, "and given to the British Museum by J. Pierrepoint Morgan as part of the Greenwell Collection". Described as follows: "max. diameter 25 mm, weight 236 grammes. Crescentic earring, circular in section, spirally twisted with tapered terminals".

Easting:
20

Northing:
73

Grid Reference:
NZ2073

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 779 >> M.H. Dodds, 1930, Prehistoric Period, Northumberland County History, XIII, p. 17 and fig. 9 R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, pp. 50-51, fig. 16, no. 8