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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy saucer brooch with gilding, (diameter: 31.3mm; thickness: 0.8mm; weight: 14.76g. The face of the brooch is decorated with a double and at times triple-beaded/ punched circle around its perimeter surrounding a wide border of chip-carved zoomorphic motifs enclosing a raised concentric circle. One motifs resembles a hare or rabbit. The decoration does not follow a uniform pattern apart from small amounts of punched and beaded ornament along the central concentric lines between the more zoomorphic features. The circular central platform (diameter: 11.8mm) is undecorated. The rim is also undecorated and is upturned by approximately 2mm. Part of the perforated hinge which held the pin axis survives on the back, as does as a small catch plate . Overall, the brooch is in a fair condition but with an area of corrosion around the break, particularly on the back of the brooch. The brooch generally has a dark green-black patina.
Saucer brooches belong largely to the 5th/ 6th century, although production survived into the early decades of the 7th century. A similar example was found at Abingdon, Oxfordshire (MacGregor & Bolick, 1993, page 48, Ref no. 2.29). This example has similar zoomorphic patterns circling around the central platform which is decorated with what appears to be a four-petalled flower. The main focus of distribution of these brooches is around the upper Thames valley, extending into southern and western Midlands. Peripheral areas include counties south of the Thames, East Anglia and as far north as Humberside.
Brooches of this type were produced charcteristically as a single casting. Women and young girls wore them in a pairs at the shoulder or the breast (MacGregor & Bolick, 1993, page 42).
Reference: A MacGregor & E Bolick, 'A Summary Catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon Collections (Non-Ferrous Metals)' (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford), 1993, pages 42-54, Ref no 2.29. | 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: | 410
630 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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