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Description: | A disc brooch made from gilded silver. The fragment forms a substantial fragment of the rim and main decorative border of a keystone garnet disc brooch of Avent's class 7.1 (R. Avent, 1975, Anglo-Saxon Garnet Inlaid Disc and Composite Brooches, British Archaeological Reports no. 11, Oxford). The raised rim has very worn traces of milling and encloses a raised, flat-topped silver arc decorated with a zigzag formed by small, punched, interlocking triangles. At each end of the arc is an empty, broken circular setting setting for an inlay. The arc is separated by a sharp ridge from a broad inner zone, decorated with an empty keystone-shaped setting flanked by an animal head in Salin's zoomorphic Style II to the right and an animal limb and triple-barred body to the left. The central portion of the brooch is broken away and the back is plain.This type of woman's brooch is dated from late in the 6th century AD to around 630 by Avent. A parallel is provided by a similar brooch from Guston, Kent, although the shapes of the settings in the raised arcs differ (Avent, as above, no. 129). Two disc brooches of a closely related class have been reported as potential Treasure finds in recent years, from Eastry, Kent, and Riccall, North Yorkshire; the latter of gilded bronze rather than silver (DCMS 2002, Treasure Annual Report 2002, nos. 28 and 30). Surface metal analysis conducted at the British Museum indicated an approximate silver content for the disc brooch fragment of 93%; it weighs 4.06 grams. From the report for the Coroner by B.Ager
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