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Description: | A copper-alloy early-medieval cloisonné brooch dating to the late 10th or 11th century. The brooch has seven peripheral lugs of which five survive, one of which retains a domed blue glass insert. The front of the brooch has a raised circular insert that fits into the hollow rimed section of the lugged disc. The central insert is ornately enamelled with a design of a six-spoked wheel or star. Six C-shaped strips of copper alloy form semi-circular fields around the edge of the brooch. Each semi-circular field is filled with dark blue glass. In the centre is light blue enamel, surrounding a central pellet of yellow enamel set in a copper-alloy square. In one place a C-shaped strip does not butt up to its neighbour, and the gap between is filled with light blue enamel.The whole brooch was gilded, although the gilding only partially survives on the edge of the front disc, and on the reverse. The reverse retains part of the soldered-on copper-alloy elements for the pin mechanism, but the pin and catchplate themselves are missing.See Buckton (1986) for a discussion of this type of cloisonné enamel brooch.
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