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Description: | A cast copper alloy Anglo-Saxon button brooch. The brooch has an angular rim, which is badly damaged. The brooch is otherwise flat and circular (maximum diameter 15.8mm). The brooch depicts an incised circle, just inside the rim. Inside the circle there is a depiction of some sort of head, the head could be anthropomorphic or it could be zoomorphic, as it seems to resemble an owl-like creature. The lines and shapes which make up the face and the circle, which frames it, are all incised and appear to have been infilled with some sort of white material. The surface of the brooch is however extremely corroded. The reverse is undecorated, but the broken remains of the pin lug and the catchplate survive. The pin lug is a single lug (now surviving as a small lumps). The catchplate also only survives as a small lump. The pin lug and the catchplate have been arranged in a longitudinal alignment. No pin survives. The brooch is otherwise complete. The metal appears worn and corroded. The artefact is generally a mid brownish-green colour. The thickness measurement below includes the rim. An exact parallel for the brooch could not be found, but similar brooches (with different motifs) can be seen in Avent and Evison. This type of brooch dates from the Early Anglo-Saxon period, between circa 450-550 AD. | 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 | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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