This Lunular pendant (“little moon”) is based on one that was from the Viking period and found in Novgorod, Russia. This was a popular motif in the East, and lesser found in the West during the Viking period.
Gilding, or gold plating, was carried out on many jewellery items in the Viking age, using the mercury gilding process. This piece has a 1micron thick layer of gold, plated over pewter, to give an attractive representation of what some of these Viking age pieces may have looked like when they were first made.
It is cast in lead free pewter in Scotland, then gold plated, and comes with a length of black cord.
