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Description: | Description: A fragment of flat decorated gilded silver. It appears to have been irregularly cut, most probably from a lozenge-shaped brooch. The surviving edge has two circular lobes projecting side by side from the corner of the lozenge, each decorated with a central raised dot and a pair of concentric ridges. Of the two remaining edges, one is ragged and the other is cleanly cut.The interior of the plate is decorated with a linear border made up of a narrow outer and a wide inner ridge with traces of punched circles on it, forming the angle of the lozenge. Within this is worn relief decoration that may perhaps be a raised circle within a further narrow ridge.The reverse has the remains of cut marks but no trace of either a pin hinge or a catch. This does not undermine the identification as a brooch, however, as only one of the original four corners survives; two of the missing corners could have carried the pin fixings.Dimensions: length 17mm, width 12mm, weight 1.5g.Discussion: Lozenge-shaped brooches appear to have been developed on the Continent from Roman models in the Early Medieval period. The later examples are typically decorated with paired lobes at the corners with circles and central dots on them, and with concentric ridges enclosing a central lozenge round a circular motif; similar to, but slightly different from, the present find. They are frequently found in France north of the Seine, in the Rhineland and south-west Germany, but examples are occasionally found as 'imports' in England, e.g. a pair (inlaid with garnets) from female grave 71 in the Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Mill Hill, Kent (Parfitt and Brugmann 1997, 45, fig. 39), and a single find from Fulford, North Yorkshire (PAS database no. SWYOR-DB3CC5).Date: Lozenge-shaped brooches date mainly to the 6th century, although an earlier dating is not excluded.
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