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Description: | Lead disc brooch, 28 mm in diameter. It is flat and has relief decoration of a double-strand border around a Jellinge-style animal. The animal begins with a head with a round eye and open bulbous jaws. A long double-strand tongue emerges to interlace over the body and under one leg. The animal is twisted into a reversed-S shape, with an angular junction between the long curving neck and the body which runs across the centre of the brooch; both neck and body are transversely ribbed with a contour line running along the back. From the angular junction emerges a transversely ribbed foreleg which ends in a hooked foot. As the body emerges from underneath the tongue, the transverse ribbing ends and is replaced by a central longitudinal line; this area appears confused (although a small area is missing) and soon has a rounded end. A short hind leg then begins, which ends in a hooked foot under which the tongue passes; the two feet are very close to one another. On the reverse are a transverse pin lug and a broken catchplate, joined by a seam, and an undrilled lug which might have become a suspension loop. This lug is towards the bottom of the brooch, but the usual position for a suspension loop is towards the top. An incomplete iron pin, missing part of the shaft, survives in the pin lug. In relatively good condition, although there are a few deep cracks and the brooch is fragile. The Jellinge style dates to the tenth century and is a Viking art style. There are parallels to this brooch known from elsewhere in Norfolk, from York and from Scandinavia. The Norfolk ones have hitherto been of copper-alloy and slightly domed (e.g. S. Margeson 1997 (The Vikings in Norfolk) fig. 29); the examples from York are more similar, being made of a lead alloy and flat (e.g. The Vikings in England nos. YD12-13, pictured on p. 121). This is an important brooch and would merit a place in a museum.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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