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Description: | Middle Anglo-Saxon lozengiform brooch made from a single piece of copper alloy. The brooch is a flattened lozenge shape and is decorated with punched dot decoration around the edge, although it is broken about halfway across. The front of the brooch narrows to form a strip of copper alloy which is bent over on itself to create a spring with one loop (looking very much like a safety-pin mechanism). The pin narrows even more as it curves around to form the pin and has a square cross-section. The brooch weighs 5.82g and measures 38mm in length, 17mm in width (across the face of the brooch) and 16mm in thickness.The brooch is similar to those described by Hattatt as Violin Brooches although these are (incorrectly) dated to the Iron Age/Bronze Age (in Hattatts visual catalogue, Fig.140, Nos. 1442 & 1385). Further examples on the PAS database include DENO-3FD883, GLO-8D5E03, NMS-829627, SF7054, KENT1321 (no illustration) and NLM7136 (no illustration). Another example, HAMP-CEBED7, has the 'chip-carved' animal art characteristic of 8th-century metalwork. Excavated examples from middle Anglo-Saxon contexts include several from Sedgeford and from Flixborough.
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