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Description: | The object consists of the gilded silver terminal and stubs of the ends of the raised frame round the foot-plate of a Frankish rectangular, or semicircular-headed, bow brooch. The terminal is in the form of an animal head with slanting, lentoid eyes, divided by a Y-shaped rib pointing to a broad, transverse band above two narrow, transverse ribs above the damaged, flat, semicircular end. There are also two narrow, V-shaped ribs above the Y, giving a 'furrowed brow' appearance. The terminal finds its closest parallels in Frankish female brooches of either the late 6th to early 7th-century, rectangular-headed Rommersheim type, which occurs mainly in the middle Rhineland region of Germany, or the mid to late 6th-century, semicircular-headed M??ngersdorf type, found both in this region and in north-eastern France (compare brooches from Herpes and Friedberg illustrated in H K??hn, Die germanischen B??gelfibeln der V??lkerwanderungszeit in der Rheinprovinz (Bonn, 1940), pl. 94: 28,5 and 28,13; and from K??ln-M??ngersdorf, ibid., pl. 95: 29,9. For the dating see comparable brooches of types V.2.1.4 and IV.2.1.1 in A Koch, B??gelfibeln der Merowingerzeit im westlichen Frankenreich (Mainz, 1998), Typentafel 3,4 and 2,16). The Great Mongeham brooch represents an example of a Continental 'import' into Anglo-Saxon England in the early medieval period. Such 'imports', mainly of jewellery, are most common in Kent, although they do also occur more sporadically in other parts of the country, including one or two recent finds from Norfolk. | Subjects: | Frankish | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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