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Description: | Incomplete cast copper alloy disc brooch of Early Early-Medieval date (AD 400 - AD 600). Diameter 28mm and 1.7mm thick. Weight 4.24g. About 1/3 of the flat plate, including the catch-plate, is missing. The break is old.. At the centre is a stamped ring-and-dot motif. This is surrounded by four equidistant but slightly smaller ring and dot motifs. Two of these smaller motifs are largely missing. However, their edges are only just visible along the line of the break. About 3mm from the peripheral edge of the plate is an incised concentric circle. The rear is flat and plain. It has a perforated lug to take a hinged pin. Viewed from the side, the lug is D-shaped. It has a length of 9mm, a width of 8mm and is about 1.0mm thick. At each side of the lug there is a deposit of iron corrosion. The front of the brooch is largely tinned and also has patchy green corrosion deposits. The reverse is almost completely covered in green corrosion deposits. There is no evidence for burning or melting.
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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