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Description: | Setting from the centre of a plated disc brooch or composite brooch. The setting, which is heavily worn and damaged, consists of a crumpled set of cell walls, within a circular frame. The frame is encircled by a collar made up of two strands of beaded filigree wire flanking a flattened Z-twisted beaded filigree rope. The central field, now empty of its settings, contains the remains of a single cruciform cell with short dividing walls radiating from it to the circular retaining wall.
Discussion: Although the setting is badly damaged, the elements of its design can be reconstructed. The central elements of both plated and composite disc brooches are typically set with a small cabochon garnet surrounded by a calcitic collar, eg the class 6 plated disc brooch from Dover (Avent 163; Richard Avent, Anglo-Saxon Disc and Composite Brooches, British Archaeological Reports 11, 1975). However there are a small number of brooches with a central setting built up of cloisonn?? cellwork, eg a plated disc brooch from Faversham (class 1, Avent 147), which has a central setting built up of four M-shaped garnet filled cells enclosing a small square plate garnet. A second plated disc brooch from Faversham (class 3, Avent 160) has a central setting containing 3 M-shaped plate garnets interlocking with a small triangular plate garnet, while the magnificent composite brooch from Kingston Down, Kent, (class 3.2, Avent 179) has a central element filled cloisonn?? garnet cellwork in an elegant and complex design. The disc brooch, from which the Bidford setting comes, must have been broadly equivalent to one of these examples. | Subjects: | Anglo-Saxon | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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