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Description: | A very detailed and well preserved Anglo-Saxon disc brooch with Style II animal ornamentation.
The brooch is circular, flat and has a narrow rim on the front enclosing the decoration. The decoration is in Style II and comprises four animals. The body of each animal is in the form of a three-straded ribbon interlaced around each other (though not always joining together), each terminating with a biting animal head.
There are two lugs on the reverse either side of a small convex hump. The pin lug is rectangular in plan and in cross-section and has a small hole at the top through which the pin would have been secured. The catchplate is intact and is a small rolled-over piece of integral copper alloy.
The brooch has an even mid-brown/green patina with only a small amount of corrosion on one side.
Artefacts decorated with Style II art are rare and are usually found on higher-status objects suggesting that it was a form of art distinctive of the elite. | Subjects: | Disc Style II | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Daubney, Adam - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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