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Description: | Incomplete cast copper alloy Viking Borre-style disc brooch. The brooch is circular in plan and flat in section. It is now damaged and two significant portions of the circumference are now missing. The front face of the brooch is decorated with a raised moulded design of a central lozenge with a circular depression at its centre. Each of the four corners extended to form interlaced, double-contoured knots that fill each quarter. Around the edge of the brooch is a plain raised moulded border. To the reverse of the brooch is a transverse catchplate. The pin-lug is now missing due to damage, but there is a raised scar where it once was with iron staining, presumably from the pin which is now missing. The brooch is worn and nothing of the original surface survives. Exposed surfaces are an even mid green. Break edges are worn, suggesting damage occurred in antiquity. The brooch has a diameter of 29.68mm, is 2.4mm thick and weighs 7.35g. An almost identical example has been recorded as NMS-7446E3. Here the recorder comments that this type of brooch is commonly found in East Anglia. It is 10th century in date.
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