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Description: | Cast copper alloy Early Medieval brooch. The brooch is an incomplete circle in plan. In profile the brooch has a flange forming a lip around the edge. Only approximately half of the flange remains. A portion of the exterior surface of the lug has a patch of what appears to be lead alloy, which may have been used as solder. What the brooch may have been soldered to, or what may have been soldered to the brooch is unknown. The reverse of the brooch has three integral lugs; two are parallel to each other, positioned at the edge. Each of these lugs has a central hole through which an iron axis bar is held in place. The third lug is positioned on the opposite edge to the pair of lugs. This lug is incomplete and was originally the catchplate. The upper surface of the brooch has a high-relief design consisting of five spirals around a high-relief ring and dot. The design is bordered by a low-relief groove and then the flange. The design has been cast rather than chip carved. The brooch has a mid blue/green patina. There are small scrapes on the upper surface revealing a shiny grey colour. The low-relief areas of the brooch have a black substance remaining on the surface. Some of these low-relief areas have scratches on the surface which may be due to recent cleaning. The brooch measures 30.41mm long, 29.56mm wide and 8.49mm thick. It weighs 12.83g.
The brooch is a saucer type brooch. Dickinson (Dickinson, T. 1991 ??Material Culture as Social Expression: The Case of Saxon Saucer Brooches with running Spiral Decoration?? Studien zur Sachsenforschung Hildesheim) has studied these types of brooches, produced a typology and concludes the five spiral running design originated on the Continent and developed from the late 4th to mid 5th centuries. In England the burials are more likely to have taken place between the late 5th and mid 6th centuries. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Bolton, Angie - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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