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Description: | Keystone garnet disc brooch, Avent, Class 2.1. The brooch is small with a narrow border of impressed triangles placed apex to base to form a pattern of zig-zag impressions which are inlaid with niello. Lying inside and against the border is a finely beaded gilt frame and within this the field is divided into gilded zones by three sub-rectangular cells lying against a circular central cell. The three cells are filled with plate garnets set over waffle patterned gold foil, the central cell is empty. Each of the three gilded fields is entirely filled with a single, highly stylised Style I zoomorph consisting of a head and back leg only. The back of the brooch is plain with the catch-plate and broken pin fastening still soldered in position.
Small keystone garnet disc brooches are well known from Kentish cemeteries and date from the 6th century. This example can be compared to very similar brooches from for example the cemeteries of Bifrons, Dover, Howletts, Gilton and Faversham (Richard Avent, Anglo-Saxon Disc and Composite Brooches, British Archaeological Reports 11, Oxford, 1975). | 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: | 500
599 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Daniel Pett | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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