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Description: | Incomplete Early Anglo Saxon copper alloy button brooch with traces of gilding. Its incomplete diameter horizontally across the face is 22mm and based on these measurements the estimated diameter is c.26mm (if the surviving piece of rim is at its full height). The pin alignment is horizontal across the face (270 degrees) and the (incomplete) catchplate curls right with (incomplete) hinge lug facing down. The rim angle is c.45 degrees. The rim survives to one side only, and is 4mm in height. The top edge of the rim is a little worn and it is unclear if this is original edge as less than half of any part of the rim survives at all. The face sits within a circular rim. It has a T-shaped nose and eyebrow and two (slightly triangular) bars for cheeks. There is no mouth. The eyes are triangular and the hairpiece is narrow with five triangular points extending upwards. The patina on the reverse is partly dark green and partly yellowy brown. The button brooch fits with Avent and Evison's (1982) Class Iii and the face is very similar to two examples from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, Plate XVI 1.3 and 1.4 except for the hair (which is more linear) and the cheeks (which have a double line). | 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
530 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Katie Hinds | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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