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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy disc brooch of Middle to Late Anglo-Saxon date and of backward-looking animal type. The front face has as its central decorative motif a quadruped standing left with all four legs visible, its head facing backwards and a triangular pointed tail bent forwards over the back to meet it. Three toes or claws are visible on each foot. The animal is contained within a slightly irregular beaded border and is extremely worn due to post-depositional damage. The back face of the brooch is flat and undecorated. It has a square lug to one side with central circular perforation, opposite which is a second lug or catchplate that is flat, triangular in form and curved to form a U-shaped aperture into which the now missing pin would have originally rested. The brooch measures 23.88mm in diameter, 1.90mm in thickness, and weighs 4.98g.Several other similar examples are recorded from Suffolk (see for example West, 1998: nos. 10.4, 11.2, 15.6, 17.2, 46.2, 46.8, 47.6, 56.9, 96.3, 97.6; and on the PAS SF-0CEA72 and SF-B91713). The date is uncertain; the 8th-9th centuries have been suggested, but a similar brooch found in an early 10th-century context in 16-22 Coppergate, York, gives the best archaeological date for the series (Roesdahl 1981: 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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