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Description: | Unidentified item of jewellery of early Anglo-Saxon date. The object is a melted fragment of silver, with both faces having the wrinkled surface resulting from the melting and congealing of metal. On one face a scrap of decorative detail survives; a strip 2mm wide decorated with two rows of punched triangles set apex-inward and one above the other, to give an impression of a reserved zig-zag in between. The triangles are filled with a dark grey or black material which is probably niello, and the strip appears to be flanked by slightly raised metal.The fragment measures 18.8mm long parallel to the nielloed strip, and 12.0mm wide perpendicular to this. The metal is a maximum of c. 3mm thick, and it is roughly convex, the nielloed strip running along the highest area. It weighs 2.0g.This decorative motif is known from several early Anglo-Saxon brooch types, including S-shaped (e.g. KENT-344345), keystone disc (e.g. IOW-A33D42), small square-headed (e.g. PAS-D30EA3), great square-headed (e.g. NMS-750C07) and radiate-headed (e.g. DENO-6D3516). All of these brooch types date broadly to the 6th century, as do other items with the same motif, such as sword pommels (e.g. IOW-200DC2 and KENT-3AC1C5) and belt fittings (e.g. KENT-AEC207).The heat distortion apparent may have come from its deposition on a cremation pyre, but there are no nearby finds suggesting the presence of cremation burials.
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