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Description: | A cast copper-alloy disc, probably a disc brooch of the middle Anglo-Saxon period. Only the plate remains, consisting of a decorated copper-alloy disc and central stud made of silver. The silver stud is faceted into a cube with rounded corners, attached by a shank through the centre of the faceplate disc. The disc is decorated with a broad band of interlace in 8th-century style, and the face was gilded, though only a few small specks are visible. One edge of the disc has broken, leaving a relatively straight line for a break. Two circular perforations pierce the interlace band on opposide sides of the disc. The reverse of the plate is featureless.The two perforations are likely to be for attaching a one-piece pin and catchplate, as on a brooch from Leicestershire, now in the Ashmolean Museum (Webster and Backhouse (eds) 1991, no. 186). Another (less likely) possibility is that the object is the head of a pin, but no scar remains of the pin shaft, unless this is the reason for the break in the plate.Compare NARC-E11208, another brooch with riveted pin, which also has a silver rivet in the centre but four zones of interlace separated by reserved dotted bands.
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