Name: Single gold earring
Provenance: Grave No. 163 (next to the third vertebra) – Paleo-christian basilica
Location: Museum of Mértola. Paleo-christian basilica
Description: A single gold earring with thin overlapping extremities, increasingly thick towards the centre, and with a circular cross section. The fastening mechanism consists of joining both extremities.
Dimensions: Diameter: 11mm, thickness 2mm
Chronology: 6th-7th centuries
Retrieved from:
Torres, C; Macias, S., (ed.) (1993): Museu de Mértola - Basílica Paleocristã. Mértola, Campo Arqueológico de Mértola, p.72.
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