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Alison Fisk

Fabulous Roman gold body chain!🤩 A jewelled mount set with amethyst & garnets, and a rear clasp set with gold coin of emperor Gratian. Late 4th century AD. Part of the Hoxne Hoard, discovered by a metal detectorist in Suffolk in 1992. British Museum 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

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Enhanced Liime 🐨 🦘

It's amazing! Thank you, I always learn something from your posts, Alison.

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Alison Fisk

Thank you for your kind comment! 🥰

Dawn Del Vecchio

OK, in the next sword and sandals epic Hollywood makes, I want to see a character wearing this!

Bonhomie Games

A delight- thank you

onetruewheel

That was an awesome bacchanal honey! Can you help me unchain?

🏳️‍🌈☽✩☾🏳️‍🌈

I love body chains! I believe the ones we have are mostly from hoards like this, because the ones that weren't lost were often taken apart by later owners and repurposed for necklaces and other jewlery as tastes changed.

sunne

It lays over the heart, interesting.

Dr Pat Witts

In the Low Ham mosaic displayed in the excellent Museum of Somerset, Venus wears a body chain similar to this - but without as much bling! I wonder who wore the Hoxne chain, and on what occasions ...

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Alison Fisk

Catherine Johns proposed a theory that it was a young woman’s bridal jewellery. Body chains are often linked to Venus, and some representations in Roman art show them in ‘intimate’ contexts. However, some illustrations show them worn over clothing, so occasions for their wear may have been varied?

Bern

Strange the way it wraps around, almost adorning in chains, to be kept. It’s beautiful and its design interesting

Alison Fisk

The Hoxne Hoard was buried some time after AD407/8 when Roman rule was breaking down in Britain. It was made up of gold jewellery, including this body chain, silver tableware and more than 15,000 gold and silver coins. Read more about the hoard on this link: www.smithsonianmag.com/history/sear...

A Search for a Lost Hammer Led to the Largest Cache of Roman Treasure Ever Found in BritainToday, archaeologists are still debating just how old the hoard is—and what it tells us about the end of the Roman Empire in Britainwww.smithsonianmag.com
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Alison Fisk

Here’s the museum record for the body chain: www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

body chain; coin; mount | British MuseumBody-chain with coin-set clasp and jewelled mount. Four chains are joined so as to form an upper-body decoration passing over the shoulders and under the arms of the wearer, and crossing at the front ...www.britishmuseum.org
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Ardent Archivist

Fifteen THOUSAND?! Holy sh!t that’s a lot of moolah.

kevanislay24

Stunning piece,and stunning find

Rhi🐝

Wouldn’t want to be wearing that in today’s heatwave 🤣🫠

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Alison Fisk

Ditto! 🥵

Daniel Álvarez

Extraordinary!

flixie00

Do we know if this was worn under or over clothing?

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Alison Fisk

A good question, open for debate. Body chains are often linked to the goddess Venus/Aphrodite, and their representations often indicate that they were used in intimate, erotic contexts, rather than for public display…