Object: Disc
Classification: Two Gold Ornaments
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Dorchester Museum,Cunnington Collection
Site: England,Dorset,Upney (near),Barrow on Ridgeway (No. 7),Found in the fourth interment in Mr. John Mays's barrow on the Ridgeway, near Upney, opened August 1885.
Discovery context: barrow
Parish: Upney
County: Dorset
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1885
Composition: Gold
Associations: Found with a flat celt, with a fragment of cloth and hering, No. 1, and two flat triangular daggers, No. 25 and 26, with one fragment of a wooden sheath, a sandstone amulet, a fragment of a third dagger and cremated bones.
Remarks: These ornaments are fragile, and so fixed that it was difficult to measure them with precision, but the drawings are substantially accurate.