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Description: | Late Saxon lead disc brooch with single transverse pin lug and catchplate on reverse. Six concentric circles of pellets surround a central motif. Diameter 39mm. Thickness c.1.5mm. Weighing 20.68g.
A.B.Marsden's (8/5/07) comments:
The brooch??s design can be described as broadly nummular rather then explicitly so. There is no legend. Indeed, most of the decorated face of the brooch is taken up with the raised circular borders surrounding the central device; these are of alternating form, four being plain circles, the other three being constructed of pellets. The central device is difficult to reconcile with a coin type but seems to consist of a raised central nipple enclosed on three sides by a Greek ??pi?? or trilithon-like character with slightly incurving uprights. This may be intended to represent a somewhat stylised letter ??A?? in which case the most likely prototype for this brooch would be the obverse of an East Anglian St. Edmund memorial penny of the early 10th century. This central device was most likely inspired by a coin but the brooch??s other features are far more abstract and place this brooch in what might be termed the sub-nummular category. | Subjects: | disc | 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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