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Description: | The object consists of the terminal and lower end of the foot-plate of a Frankish rectangular-headed bow brooch. The terminal is in the form of an animal head with lentoid eyes, the upper half of each of which is sunken. The rectangular snout is decorated with four transverse grooves above which the vertically ribbed cheeks are divided by a broader raised rib decorated with small, punched, interlocking triangles that bifurcates to form the frame of the foot-plate. The underside is deeply concave.This type of Frankish female brooch (designated the `Worms' type by German scholars) occurs mainly in the middle and lower Rhineland and upper Danube areas of Germany and occasionally in northern France (A Koch, Bügelfibeln der Merowingerzeit im westlichen Frankenreich (Mainz, 1998), pp. 275-279, map 20). There is a very close parallel to the Kilverstone find from Nordendorf, Germany, with similar eyes and ribbing on the terminal (H Kühn, Die germanischen Bügelfibeln der Völkerwanderungszeit in der Rheinprovinz (Bonn, 1940), pl. 97: 30,10). The Kilverstone brooch clearly, therefore, represents an example of a Continental 'import' into Anglo-Saxon England in the early medieval period. Such 'imports', mainly of jewellery, are most common in Kent, although they do also occur more sporadically in other parts of the country, including one or two recent finds from Norfolk.Height: 40mm; width: 22mm. X-ray fluorescence analysis conducted at the British Museum indicated an approximate silver content of 81 per cent. The fragment weighs 6g | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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