Gold Ornaments (economic)

Economic

 

Picture was taken at the Singapore National Museum on 18 February 2014.
 

These gold ornaments were from the Sacred Hill and they were found at Fort Canning in the year of 1928 by labourers.One of them stated that the ornaments were found lying beneath the top of a pre-colonial soil.

The gold ornaments consists of an armlet and a set of earrings. Both of them are made out of gold. This set of ornaments are of a Javanese style as the design of the ornaments were found at the entrance of old Hindu and Javanese temples.

The set of earrings are with inferior diamonds. It connects with a bar-and-socket joints and hinges. The armlet has a design of a Hindu god, Kala, representing time and destruction and it is a protective symbol.