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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 16.01mm). 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. The lines and shapes, which make up the face and the circle, are all incised. These areas have traces of gilding still surviving. The surface of the brooch is in a comparably good condition. The reverse is undecorated, but the broken remains of the pin lug and the catchplate survive. The lug survives, but only as a corroded mass of iron and copper alloy, indicating that the pin was made of iron, but unfortunately it is impossible to see whether the lug is a twin or a single lug. The catchplate also only survives as a small lump of copper alloy which has bent over. The pin lug and the catchplate have been arranged in a longitudinal alignment. No pin survives, other than the corroded terminal. The brooch is otherwise complete. 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 | Creator: | Liz Walker | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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