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Description: | Part of a silver-gilt small, Kentish, square-headed brooch, inlaid with a single garnet. The fragment comprises part of the left side (when viewed from behind) of the foot-plate of the brooch. Part of a panel at the upper corner is present, in which moulded Style I relief ornament is visible. This is divided from a similar panel in the lower corner of the foot-plate by a high-relief strip inlaid with niello, forming a zig-zag pattern. A similar strip runs along the lower edge of the foot-plate. A semi-oval garnet slice is inlaid at the outer side-edge of the foot-plate (another would have been inlaid at the opposite side). This garnet is backed by gold foil. The reverse is plain, un-gilded silver, the catch-plate not being present on this fragment. The broken edges of the fragment appear relatively unworn, suggesting that the damage has occurred since deposition, probably as a result of contact with agricultural equipment in the recent past. This brooch is part of a well known series produced in east Kent during the early to mid 6th century AD (circa 500-570). These brooches were the subject of an unpublished Ph.D. thesis by David Leigh (Leigh 1980). This example is closely paralleled by brooches from the Anglo-Saxon cemeteries at Bifrons (Bi. 42), Howletts (Ho.17-18) and Sarre (Sa.4-2), all assigned by Leigh to his Series I (Leigh 1980, pls.16-17). A head-plate fragment from Hythe is probably also a parallel (Hy1, ibid.). | 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
570 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Andrew Richardson | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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