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Description: | Incomplete cast copper alloy saucer brooch of Early Anglo-Saxon, late fifth/early sixth century, date. The brooch is a Dickinson sub type IIB5. Diameter 30mm and 3mm thick. Weight 8.61g. The front is slightly convex and the rear is slightly concave. The upturned (or angular) rim is broken and missing and the broken edge is very eroded. Part of the disc is also broken and this break is old but does not appear to be as old as the breaks around the edge. The front of the brooch is decorated with a central ring and dot motif enclosed by five running spirals with tendrils forming pointed lobes. On the rear are the vestigal remains of a single hinge lug and a catch-plate. Originally there were two lugs to take the axis bar. However, the second lug is now missing and would have been situated in the damaged and missing part of the disc. Both sides of the brooch have a mid-brown coloured patina. | 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: | 450
550 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Frank Basford | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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