This pendant is a replica of an unusual gilded bronze Anglo Saxon/Insular or Pictish mount with an unknown purpose. It is possibly a reliquary fitting but your guess is as good as mine! It's clearly a bear in my opinion :)
Hand carved from wax and then cast in high quality silver or bronze. Inspired by the regular destruction and reuse as jewellery of British reliquary fittings by the Norse.
Please note, you are buying a handmade piece of jewellery and we will not always have it in stock and I may require some time to make it. While we keep bronze in stock please allow around a month's production time for silver.
If you want this in other materials such as gold please email me for a quote at caledonianforge@gmail.com We are always open to alter and change any of our pieces to suit your tastes. In the listing the piece might look darker than the finished piece. We artificially darken our silver pieces with liver of sulphur so that the details will show up in photographs but as standard the finished piece will be shiny and polished. If you'd prefer us to darken it then please let us know and we will happily do this for you.
This has been carved by myself from wax and then cast in high quality by Jewellery Casting Scotland and finished with a mixture of power tools and traditional hand tools like files and saws.
Comes with a free black cotton cord. We also have a separate listing with silver chains here if you desire. Please note if you buy the chain I will remove the twisted loop so the chain can fit through the suspension hole.
All our packaging is 100% paper. No plastic at all.