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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy late Anglo-Saxon disc brooch. Worn and bent the brooch is circular with part of the edge missing due to old breaks. It is flat and measures 27.35mm in diameter. The front face is decorated with two concentric rings of pellets around a slightly domed central circle. On the back face there is an integral pin lug and small catchplate. This brooch could be a nummular brooch, although examples are more normally made from lead. Nummular brooches are so called as they are ultimately derived from coins and usually have rings of pellets, as this example does, around a central 'coin' motif. They date to the 9th and 10th centuries.
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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