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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy and gilded saucer brooch of Early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) date (c. AD 400 - c. AD 600). Diameter: 41.7mm; thickness: 7.4mm. Weight: 15.55grams. About 50% of the angular rim is missing due to corrosion and old breaks. Part of the single pin lug and part of the catch-plate are missing due to old breaks. The pin is also missing. The raised decoration at the front consists of a central ring and dot enclosed by six evenly spaced running spirals within a ring. Between this outer ring and the rim is a border of double triangles each stamped with a ring within a ring. On the rear face the surviving part of the pin lug (hinge) is too small to establish it's shape although it appears only one was present. Only a stub of the catch-plate has survived and this measures 7.8mm in length and about 2.3mm in width. There is a irregular hole through the brooch below the pin lug which may have held a chain to link this brooch to it's pair.The brooch is corroded But extensive gilding remains on the front only. There is some iron corrosion on the back which may be related to an iron pin but the pin lug itself is free of iron corrosion. There is no evidence for burning or melting and the damage appears old and patinated. A number of similar saucer brooches with running spirals are shown in MacGregor and Bolick 1993, 42-45, in particular 2.6 on page 43 have six running spirals within a border of stamped triangles. MacGregor and Bolick comment that brooches of this type were produced characteristically as single castings, whose dished forms give rise to their name. Normally, women (and, occasionally, young girls) wore them in pairs at the shoulder or the breast.
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