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Description: | Medieval Nummular brooch, relief decoration on face, reverse with stumps of broken catch-plate aligned with outer edge and damaged transverse catch-plate. The basic design is relatively generic on pennies from the 11th to the 12th centuries. The nearest parallel, however, is to reverses of William I's Profile/Cross and trefoils type penny (North 847) dated to the early 1080s. William II's Profile type is also very similar and also close in date (North 851; late 1080s). Other types are similar but have a voided cross which this brooch does not. Thus, on the balance of probabilities, this nummular brooch would seem to be derived from pennies of either William II or, perhaps more likely, those of his father. In any event, a date in the last two decades of the eleventh century would seem most consistent with the design. This accords well with the date range of many of these lead nummular brooches, for example one from Felixstow [McLenahan NMD Jan/Feb 2004] of similar date. | 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: | 1080
1100 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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