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Description: | Early Saxon incomplete gilt copper alloy Asymmetric brooch (25 x 40mm), broken rectangular arm with remains of beaded border containing chip-carved decoration of triple zig-zag line within serrated border line. The other arm is triangular with rounded moulding at each corner, that at apex with two incised lines indicating collar, within raised border with punched dots along horizontal edge is a V-shaped field outlined in relief by border line, both arms of which contain serrated central line and one contains additional plain line, lozenge shaped zone at apex with traces of delicate incised median line flanked by oblique incised lines in herringbone fashion. A tapering arched bow joins the two arms, carinated in section and decorated along both edges with semi-circular ring-and-dot and punched dots. On the reverse of the triangular arm is a broken perforated lug and on the rectangular arm a broken catch-plate. Breaks not recent. Cf. almost identical examples in MacGregor (1997) 137, no.66.1, and a silver-gilt pair from Tournai (St.-Brice), Belgium, gr. 6, that have semi-circular rather than triangular head-plates, but similar rectangular feet. They were found with a mould-blown glass bowl with a chi-rho on the base and a pottery jug (R. Brulet, 1990, Les fouilles du quartier Saint-Brice a Tournai, Louvain-la-Neuve, pl. 5: 6, 3). The type of bowl is mainly dated to the late 5th century, although may have continued into the 6th. The main article on the brooches is in Antiquit??s Nationales, 29 (1997), 231 ff, where they are dated to the late 5th century. | Subjects: | Asymmetric Anglo-Saxon | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Bales, Ellen - Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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