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Description: | Gilded copper-alloy Kentish square-headed brooch of Leigh’s series III, with most of the foot missing. The brooch is very corroded and the image is low resolution, but traces of Style I decoration are visible on the headplate and possibly on the bow and footplate fragment. The headplate has, at the top of the bow, a small sunken rectangular panel which may be an empty setting for a stone, probably a garnet; the original compiler of the finds recording form has stated that this panel is backed with silver foil. It is surrounded by rectilinear borders. One of the headplate upper corners appears to have a pointed corner, just possibly another setting for a garnet, but more probably part of the Style I decoration. The opposite lower corner of the headplate frame has two curvilinear elements visible through the corrosion. The closest parallel in Leigh’s catalogue of Kentish square-headed brooches is no. 3 from Herpes, made from silver. The Lyminge brooch has complex decoration unusual for a brooch made from copper alloy. The original compiler of the finds recording form has stated that there is a ‘pin hinge on reverse’. Early Anglo-Saxon, first half of sixth century AD. This object has been identified from the image only. | Subjects: | Kentish square headed Leigh's series III | 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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