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Description: | Large lozengiform brooch made from copper alloy. It is flat and relatively thick, and both ends are broken. At one end, the tapering point of the lozenge has just begun to flare out again at the break; this break has carried away the pin hinge or spring. The break at the other end has removed half of an off-centre catchplate; there is also a distinct thickening in the centre of this break. The brooch is decorated with a grooved border and a single line of ring-and-dot motifs, many now corroded away. The patina is a pale matt grey with many corrosion bubbles. Where the catchplate has been scraped the bare metal appears shiny and silvery, but the green-ness of the corrosion suggests a copper alloy rather than silver. The brooch measures 42.5 x 21 mm in surviving length; the thickness increases from 1.6 mm at the pin hinge/spring end, to 2 mm just above the catchplate, to 2.4 mm at the lower break. The catchplate brings the thickness up to 6 mm.
This brooch type (with an oval or lozengiform body and basic integral safety-pin type sprung pin) has been confirmed as early-medieval only in recent years, and some have been published as late as 2000 as Bronze Age 'violin bow' brooches (e.g. Hattatt 2000, 281; refs. 1442, 1385). Examples from North Lincolnshire and Sedgeford (Norfolk) have confirmed a Middle Anglo-Saxon date, with the more elaborate examples (such as HAMP-CEBED7) bearing the 'chip-carving' characteristic of 8th-century metalwork. See also DENO-3FD883, SWYOR-B804D7, GLO-8D5E03, NMS-829627, KENT1321 (no illustration) and NLM7136 (no illustration). | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 720
850 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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