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Description: | Cast copper alloy disc brooch dating to the Early Medieval period. The brooch is circular in plan and rectangular in cross-section. On the upper surface of the brooch is a backward-looking quadruped within a billeted border. There are two annulets on the body of the animal. On the reverse is an integral perforated lug and a corroded integral lug where the pin would have attached. It has a mid-green patina. There are nearly 30 of these brooches now recorded on the PAS database, most from Norfolk or Suffolk. A similar backward-looking animal brooch found in an early 10th-century context in 16-22 Coppergate, York, gives the best archaeological date for the series (Roesdahl 1981,'The Vikings in England', no. E10, p.75, 105).
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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