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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy miniature saucer brooch of Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) date (c. 450-c. 600). The brooch is circular in plan but some of the upturned rim is missing due to breaks. The pin lug and pin are also missing. At the centre of the front, within a raised border, there is a crude square-swastika with small bosses detached from the tips of the arms. The rear face is convex and the catch-plate is 'D'-shaped in side view. However, the curled-over part that retained the pin is missing.The front of the brooch is corroded and has traces of gilding. At the rear there is a mid-green patina overall.The breaks are old and there is no evidence for melting or burning.Maximum diameter: 17.3mm; thickness: 4.9mm. Weight: 2.25g.Tania Dickinson has commented on this brooch:'There is a range of button-brooch size brooches found on either side of the Channel which have spiral and other geometric motifs, and sometimes garnet settings, and as a hitherto small group, the range is widening as yet more get found. I think your brooch may be more a crude square-swastika, with little bosses detached from the tips of the arms, rather than proper spirals. So perhaps look at the slightly larger, but still smallish, saucer brooches with central leg-swastika and egg-and-tongue borders (which figure in my forthcoming paper for the 10th PAS conference) rather than button brooches with running spirals like Mucking GH 16 (Hamerow 1993) or Kingsworthy grave 68 (Hawkes with Grainger 2003). But the best source is Jean Soulat's recent book of his thesis: Le materiel archeologique de type Saxon et anglo-saxon en Gaule merovingienne (Paris: AFAM, 2009)'.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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