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Description: | A well made cast copper alloy Viking lozengiform openwork brooch in very good condition. This brooch measures 30mm by 30mm in size. The front face of this brooch is decorated with a raised central cross with circular holes for each quadrant. Each corner of the brooch has a tiny animal head, with small oblong shaped ears, round eyes and a tapering snout. The back face of the brooch is smooth and undecorated, the pin loop remains in place with a corroded iron deposit within it, this implies that the original pin may well have been iron. The catch plate is now missing. A identical Viking brooch is illustrated in Hattatt (1989, 375, fig 234, no 1700). Margeson (1997, 20) states that several examples of the lozengiform openwork brooch have been found in East Anglia, all made of copper alloy. She confirms that the brooches were cast in a mould, one such mould has been found at Hedeby, and that this type of brooch has been found right across the Viking world from Russia to Dublin.Jane Kershaw has confirmed this as a Scandinavian type -Openwork lozenge brooch, Type I (beaded arms) Martin et al. 2004, 498; Kershaw 2009, 313
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