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Description: | A complete copper-alloy late early medieval disc brooch. This brooch is circular in shape and measures 26mm in diameter. The front face is slightly domed and the back face concave.
The front face is decorated with a three armed motif radiating from its centre, which splits the face into three fields. Each arm is rectangular in shape, flaring slightly towards its terminal and has two longitudinal rows of circles running along its length. Inbetween each of the three arms there is a trefoil design, which may be zoomorphic. Each one has a ring and dot motif in the two outer lobes, which could look like eyes and the final lobe of the trefoil could perhaps be a snout. There is a boarder around the front face consistinig of small circles.
On the back face the pin suspension and catch are complete and the remains of corroded iron can be seen, implying that this brooch originally had an iron pin, now missing.
This brooch is very similar to a Viking style brooch discovered in Osbournby, Lincolnshire (see NLM 617). Both examples date from the late 8th to 11th centuries.
Jane Kershaw has confirmed this as Scandinavian - Borre-style disc brooch, Jansson Type II A2 (Jansson 1984b). | 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: | 800
1100 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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