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Description: | A complete copper-alloy middle Anglo-Saxon disc brooch with relief decoration depicting a backward-looking animal, it measures 28.35mm in diameter. Around the edge of the front face there is a border of small rectangles. Inside this border is a quadruped with all four legs shown, with the head facing backwards over the back and the tail bent forward to meet it. Each foot has three toes and the neck has zigzag edge representing a mane. The head has open jaws and a circular ring and dot motif representing the eye.On the reverse are two D-shaped lugs, one has a slot cut in it to form the catchplate. The other lug is preforated and formed the pin lug. There is some iron corrosion from the pin within the pin lug.This brooch is similar to others discovered in Suffolk such as one example with a beaded border found at Dunwich (see SF-5810). The best date for these brooches comes from one found in an early 10th-century context in 16-22 Coppergate, York (Roesdahl 1981: 75, 105).
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