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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy Anglo-Saxon disc brooch. This brooch is circular in plan and flat in section. The face of the brooch is heavily worn and abraded. What survives of the original surface has a dark green patina, but exposed surfaces are lighter green. There are significant patches of orangey brown corrosion product. The front is decorated with a central dot, with four other dots spaced around the periphery. It is likely these dots were enclosed within incised rings, but traces of these have been worn away. There are no traces of tinning to the front, which might be expected with this type of brooch. The reverse of the brooch is similarly abraded with exposed surfaces showing as lighter green. There is a single pin bar lug with orange corrosion product to either side, presumably the remains of the iron pin, which is now entirely missing. The catchplate remains, but is missing its curl. The brooch has a diameter of 27.1mm, but is bent down to either edge. The brooch is 1.3mm thick and weighs 6.19g. MacGregor and Bolick, 1993, A Summary catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon collections in the Ashmolean Museum, page 63, illustrate similar examples with the ring and dot decoration. Brooches of this type date to the 5th and 6th centuries. | 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: | 400
600 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Caroline McDonald | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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