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Description: | A complete copper-alloy early Anglo-Saxon annular brooch frame. This frame is circular in shape and measures c48mm in external diameter and c27mm in internal diameter.
This frame has a circular pin hole, measuring c3mm in diameter. There are traces of corroded iron in and around this pin hole and on the opposite side of the frame, this is presumably the remains of an iron pin, now missing. The front face of the frame is decorated with two opposing bands of decoration, one in the area of the pin hole and the other opposite this, each band consisting of transverse grooves. The back face of the frame is undecorated but again has corroded iron adhering to it in the area of the pin hole, probably from the original iron pin.
Similar annular brooches have been discovered in Icklingham, Suffolk (West 1998, 169, fig 52 and McGregor and Bolick 1993, 88). Their distribution is most heavily concentrated in the Anglian territories and they date from the late 5th to the 7th century. | 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
600 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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