not perfected until about 1400, in Paris. Fixing a terminus ante quem is more difficult, but white enamel en ronde bosse became less fashionable after about the 1430s. Moreover, there was no Prince of Wales between 1413, when Henry V succeeded to the throne, and 1454. History Dunstable, where the ancient roads of Watling Street and the Icknield Way cross some thirty miles north of London, was frequently visited by the medieval elite. Apart from travellers passing through, tournaments were held there at least until the 1340s, and Lancastrian armies used it as a base in 1459 and 1461. The jewel was found in an excavation of the friary, in what seemed to be a deposit of rubble dating from the destruction of the buildings after the Dissolution of the Monasteries. It would appear to have been above ground until that point. However, it must have been overlooked—the scrap value of the gold itself would have prevented it from being merely discarded. After its excavation, the jewel was bought by the British Museum in 1966 for £5,000, of which £666 was a grant from the Art Fund (then NACF); other contributions were made by the Pilgrim Trust and the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths. It is on display in Room 40. Notes References On the jewel: "BM database": British Museum collection database The Dunstable Swan Jewel "BM Highlights": British Museum Highlights The Dunstable Swan Jewel Campbell, Marian. An Introduction to Medieval Enamels, 1983, HMSO for V&A Museum, Cherry, John (1987), in Jonathan Alexander & Paul Binski (eds), Age of Chivalry, Art in Plantagenet England, 1200-1400, Royal Academy/Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 1987 Cherry, John (2003), in Marks, Richard and Williamson, Paul, eds. Gothic: Art for England 1400-1547, 2003, V&A Publications, London, (part of text given on BM database) Cherry, John (2010), The Holy Thorn Reliquary, The British Museum Press, 2010, Matthews, C. L. "Excavations on the site of the Dominican Friary, Dunstable 1965", Mansshead Magazine, 16, 1966 Platt, Colin, Medieval England: A Social History and Archaeology from the Conquest to 1600 A.D., Routledge, 1994 Robinson, James. Masterpieces of Medieval Art, 2008, British Museum Press, Stratford, Jenny, The swan badge and the Dunstable Swan, and other pages as specified, in Richard II's Treasure; the riches of a medieval king, website by The Institute of Historical Research and Royal Holloway, University of London, 2007 Tait, Hugh. Catalogue of the Waddesdon Bequest in the British