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Description: | Two fragments forming the greater part of a gilded silver garnet??inlaid Kentish disc brooch. The central circular setting is empty, with most of its backing missing. This is surrounded by a band of decoration comprising stylised animal ornament (six out of eight sections are extant), keystone garnet settings (only one out of four settings remains complete) and intermediate circular settings (three out of four remain, all empty). An inner rim consists of an inlaid band of niello with a central zig-zag pattern. The outer rim is undecorated apart from sections of beading. A catchplate for the pin survives on the reverse of the larger fragment. The fragments of this brooch should be reconstructed with the circular cells opposite each other, as on the drawing. This is an example of a disc brooch of Avent??s Keystone Garnet Class 6.1 (R. Avent, Anglo-Saxon Disc and Composite Brooches (BAR 11), Oxford 1975, cf. No. 118 from Faversham). Avent records 11 examples of this class, from Dover, Faversham (4 brooches), Gilton, Kingston and Maidstone. The class is characterised by four equidistant keystone garnet settings and four intermediate garnet-inlaid settings (the latter being circular in all but one example of the class). Between the settings a stylised animal ornament consisting of two intertwined, ??back-biting?? creatures, is repeated eight times. The central setting, where it has survived, is a raised boss of white paste with a circular garnet setting. Amongst class 6.1, the Eastry brooch is unusual in having keystone settings of simple, rather than stepped, shape, paralleled in only one example, no. 118 from Faversham, and in lacking garnet settings in its inner rim. Brooches of this class represent one of the final stages in the development of the Kentish garnet-inlaid disc brooch and Avent dated the class to the very late sixth, or very early seventh, century. Their production probably overlapped with that of the Plated Disc brooches that supplanted them, and with which they share affinities. | Subjects: | Kentish Disc Avent Class 6.1 Kentish | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Richardson, Andrew - Canterbury Archaeological Trust | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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