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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy early-medieval disc brooch (Anglo-Saxon: 5th/6th century AD). The brooch is now sub-circular having suffered some considerable circumferential abrasions. The reverse features a pair of horizontally aligned lugs near the circumference. The catchplate (located at 9 o'clock) has been abraded, as has the pin lug (located at 3 o'clock) whose top is missing from the perforation upwards. Around the pin lug probable orange staining suggests that the pin was made of iron; it is now missing. The flat upper surface of the brooch is decorated with ring-and-dot motifs in a broadly cruciform arrangement. Four motifs are visible: a central one and three towards the edge. There was presumably a fourth motif to make the decoration symmetrical. As with other examples, the hinge and catchplate are situated behind two of the outer ring-and-dot motifs. Similarly decorated brooches can be found illustrated in MacGregor and Bolick (1993, 63), and also on this database: e.g. HAMP-7036F5. Such brooches were often tinned; this example has a silvery sheen suggestive of such a treatment. The artefact is bent slightly in profile.
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