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Description: | A cast copper alloy variant of an early Anglo-Saxon disc brooch. The flat circular brooch measures 27.7mm in diameter, it is 3.8 mm thick and weighs 7.17g. It has a central raised circular border with a further less well-defined raised circle within. Inside this is a convex oval decorated with two small circular depressions and a slightly protruding area to one side. This resembles a face. Outside the outer circular border, the brooch has been silvered or tinned, and it is decorated with a border of rounded crescent stamps.
The back of the brooch is flat and undecorated. The integrally cast pin lug survives, but where the catchplate should be there is nothing but a patch of solder. It seems unlikely that the brooch should have been made with a separate catchplate; it is more probable that the original broke off, the stub was smoothed down and a replacement was soldered on as a repair in antiquity. This repair has at some point become detached again.
The use of a white-metal coating and stamped decoration, as well as the design of the pin lug, dates this brooch to the early Anglo-Saxon period. Strangely, though, it does not fit into any known category of early Anglo-Saxon brooch. The face-like design on the front is reminiscent of button brooches, but the faces on these tend to be chip-carved. The white-metal coating and the ring of stamps recall disc brooches, and here the parallel is closer; a date of c. 450-550 AD, following that for disc brooches, is therefore suggested. | 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: | Naomi Payne | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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