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Description: | A copper-alloy worn and incomplete possible brooch in the form of a flying bird, most likely to be late early medieval and circa 11th-12th century in date. The front is very slightly rounded and decorated. The bird is depicted as if flying and seen from above. One wing and the head are now missing due to old and worn breaks. Behind the pointed remains of the probable head the object flares into a rectangular shape with a pair of opposing openwork holes; the wings are set behind these and taper to a rounded point. The body tapers to a transverse moulding and then flares outwards to form the tail. Both the surviving wing and the tail are decorated with longitudinal grooves; there is also a transverse groove separating the rounded top of the wings from their lower parts. The reverse is flat and undecorated, with no pin fittings or any other means of fixing. The object measures 36.61mm in length and 21.56mm in width. The copper-alloy is a reddish brown in colour and reminiscent of the metal used for late Anglo-Saxon or Anglo-Scandinavian objects.This is an unusual object but the form of the bird, especially the linear grooved decoration and the moulding between body and tail, links it to the series of bird brooches found in Denmark and England during the eleventh century (Pedersen 1999). Other more conventional examples on the PAS database include BERK-CEBC67, BERK-5DED86, NMS-E7F720, SF-BCC403 KENT-9F6987 SUSS-44F203 SF-7B3CA5.
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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