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Description: | This gilt copper alloy Anglo Saxon saucer brooch is circular in plan but is broken into two adjoining pieces. The smaller fragment is 31.84mm in length with a diameter of 13.18mm, whilst the larger fragment is 32.72mm in length with a width of 24.12mm. When the two widths are combined, this gives the brooch an over all diameter of 37.3mm. The combined weight of both pieces is 18.43 grammes. The brooch has an angular rim, which is plain. The design on the flattened central area consists of a central double ring and dot motif surrounded by 7 irregular running spirals with a single raised concentric circle at perimeter. On the reverse of the smaller fragment is a single pin lug and on the reverse of the larger fragment is the badly worn catchplate, both with large traces of iron corrosion.
The gilding survives well, but it is impossible to see whether additional decoration in the form of hatching was originally present.
Saucer brooches were produced by a single casting and normally worn in pairs at the shoulder or breast by women (and occasionally younger girls).They are mainly found in the Upper Thames Valley, but East Anglia is considered a peripheral area for their distribution. See MacGregor and Bolick 1993, A summary catalogue of the Anglo Saxon collections in the Ashmolean Museum, page 43, number 2.5 | 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: | 470
600 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Caroline McDonald | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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