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Description: | Early Medieval disc brooch, dating to the mid 5th to mid 6th century. It is made from cast copper alloy with the remains of an iron pin.
The brooch was originally circular, however it has been broken and about a third of it is missing. The break may be quite recent. Its upper surface is flat decorated with a central small conical hole bordered by two concentric rings. The upper surface has a silver or tinned wash. The reverse has one visible semi-circular lug at one edge. There may be a second, but this is hidden by a large corroded iron spring. The pin is missing. The reverse also has a shiny grey surface, but this may be due to the patina rather silvering or tinning.
In diameter the brooch is 36.21mm, and in depth across the spring it is 11.4mm It weighs 9.67g. | 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: | Angie Bolton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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