Gold, 1.22 grams, 13.35 mm. Circa 7th century AD. A very rare gold spacer bead with a ribbed detailed loop. These pendants where worn between glass beads as a spacer to set off the main pendant which would have hung in the centre, set with a coin or garnet. Ref: for similar pieces see British Museum Guide to Anglo Saxon Antiquities 1923 plate IV page 62/63. Published: Hammond, Brett. British Artefacts, volume I - Early Anglo-Saxon. Very Fine condition. From an old English collection, purchased in the 1970's.