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Description: | Two fragments of an Early Medieval Kentish Keystone Garnet Disc brooch, probably dating from the sixth century. The brooch is circular in plan and has been cast in copper alloy in one piece. The front of the brooch is gilded and is decorated with a central circular setting into which a stone would have been set, this is now missing. Radiating out from this centre piece would have been four further wedge shaped settings with the narrow end facing towards the centre; each of which would have also contained a stone. Two of these setting remain on the fragments. The spaces in between the keystone settings are decorated with panels of animal ornament. The rim of the brooch has both plain and beaded decorations. The reverse of the brooch is undecorated and there are no signs of the attachment fittings. Walton Rogers (2007 p.115) suggests that the Keystone brooches are mostly worn singly at or near the throat. It is though is the fragments belongs to the second of Avent's(1975) classifications, but it is not possible to define this any further. Together the fragments are 44.4mm long, 29.6mm wide, 2.3mm thick and weigh 8.7 grams.
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