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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy saucer brooch of Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) date (c. AD 410 - c. AD 600). Length: 27.7mm; width: 22.8mm and 6.1mm thick. Weight: 6.63g.The brooch would have been circular in plan. However, the flared edges are largely missing due to old breaks. The pin lug and catch-plate are also incomplete due to old breaks that are abraded.The front of the brooch is flat, except for the surviving parts of the flared edge. At the rear the face is mainly flat but curves forwards near the edge. Between the pin lug and the catch-plate the surface is slightly proud. The single pin lug is broken mid-way through the hole for the pin bar and the curled-over part of the catch-plate is missing. Grooved decoration at the front consists of a central sub-circular area surrounded by six sub-trapezoidal-shaped segments of slightly varying sizes. This brooch has a mid-green and light brown patina and the edges are very abraded. There is no sign of any melting or burning.'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......Saucer brooches belong largely to the fifth and sixth centuries, although some production survived early into the early decades of the seventh century' (MacGregor and Bolick 1993, 42).
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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