Personal Seal, Matrix Of Queen Balthild - Norwich, UK
The personal seal matrix of Queen Bathild was discovered in 1999 in a field a few miles east of Norwich. It was originally part of a swivelling finger ring, and its engravings suggest an early Anglo- Saxon date. Closer study and inspection came to associate the object with Bathild, wife and queen of Clovis 11, king of Burgundy and Neustria (639 - 658). She is known to have been an Anglo- Saxon of elite birth, and this personal seal may have been returned to her homeland after her death.
Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery
Castle Hill,
Norwich,
East Anglia NR1 3JU
Tel: 01603493649
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