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Description: | A fragment of a Scandinavian equal-armed brooch, dating to the 10th century. It is made from gilt copper alloy, the fragment consists of one terminal, with a perforated circular lobe to either side; one of these perforations contains a small rivet. The bow and identical second terminal are missing. On the reverse of the brooch the worn remains of a single off-centre pin lug are visible, with a possible scar from a second lug raising the possibility that the lug was originally double. The brooch fragment weighs 6.93g and measures 32.11mm in length, 30.9mm in width and 6.3mm in thickness. This brooch can be classified as a Type III A:1 (as by Aagard in Birka II.1). Its decoration consists of a Borre style animal with gripping arms or legs. The brooch can be closely paralled by a find from Suffolk included in 'A corpus of Anglo-Saxon material from Suffolk' by Stanley West (p.114). This is one of only six Scandinavian, Viking period equal-armed brooches recorded in England (Kershaw, pers comm Oct 2008). | 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: | 900
1000 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Anna Marshall | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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