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Description: | A copper-alloy disc brooch of middle to late Anglo-Saxon date; the transverse pin lug and copper-alloy pin survive but the catch plate is now missing. The brooch is circular and 20.8mm in diameter; it is flat and 1.2mm in thickness. The front face has a recessed cross made up from four curved reserved strips, forming a recessed roughly oval cell in each quadrant. Traces of decayed greenish possible enamel can be seen within the cross and oval cells, but the original colour of the possible enamel is no longer clear.On the reverse the pin lug is integral and incomplete. The pin is a piece of copper-alloy wire pushed through the lug and bent into an open loop; it tapers to a point.This champlevé enamel brooch is very similar to an example from Norfolk (Hattatt, 1987, 315 and 319, fig 103, no 1309). Examples on the PAS database tend to be more poorly preserved; compare NMS-8B7666 and ESS-5E37A1. A similarly well-preserved example can be found at SF9519. An 8th- to 10th-century date seems likely.
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