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Description: | An incomplete gilded copper-alloy nummular brooch of late early-medieval date (11th century AD). Perhaps two-thirds of the artefact survives, bent; only a limited section of the circumference is extant. This is effectively a repouss?? disc brooch, decorated unifacially with a design raised up from below. The design is that of a crowned, bearded and ?draped bust facing right, with a sceptre to the right, all within a beaded border. Between the border and the surviving circumference are the letters '?EDAA?', with a faint beaded border towards the circumference. The brooch seems to be imitating a coin, as with an example illustrated in Mills (2001, 48; ref. AS103). Further, it would appear to be imitating a coin brooch, that is a gilded and mounted coin. On the quoted example and many 11th-century coin brooches the reverse [cross] tends to be displayed, rather than the obverse bust as in this instance. However, this brooch is still dated to the main period of popularity of coin brooches - the later 11th century, and specifically the reigns of Edward the Confessor and William I. The bust displayed on this brooch approximates best to the bearded bust facing right on some of the coins of Edward the Confessor, although it is considered that the portrait is better rendered on this object; as such it is not thought that the brooch was made using a genuine coin die. It is also larger than contemporary coins.
The lower surface of the brooch is plain apart of some overspill of the obverse's gilt near the circumference. Towards the surviving section of circumference is a rectangular strip folded together at two points to make a double lug. The folds have been pierced; one retains part of what was presumably the axis bar around which the pin would have looped. Inscription: ?EDAA? | Subjects: | Nummular | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Webley, Robert - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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