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Description: | Cast copper alloy Anglo-Saxon button-type or small saucer brooch. The brooch has an upturned rim and catchplate and hinge on the reverse. The spring and part of the pin survives as a lump of iron corrosion adhering to the hinge. The front of the brooch has relief decoration in the form of four elongated 'S' shapes set around a central beaded circle and dot. In style this brooch could be considered a small saucer brooch, with decoration related to the running spiral series, although its overall form and size (diameter 20mm) also relate it to the button brooch series.
According to Avent and Evison 1982 (pl. XVIII) these should be called 'button-type' brooches, but Suzuki argues (2008, 309 note 1) that button brooches with human mask decoration have a different origin and small brooches with geometric decoration should be seen as part of the saucer brooch series. Excavated parallels include Mucking GH 16 (Hamerow 1993) or Kingsworthy grave 68 (Hawkes with Grainger 2003). Parallels on the PAS database include IOW-A44C21, KENT-007C80 and KENT-30F985. | 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: | Andrew Richardson | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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