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Description: | A Late Saxon disc brooch with a central collet containing an opaque red pellet, apparently glass, surrounded by seven round blind-drilled holes or pits within a rocker-arm engraved border. On the reverse, a pair of parallel grooves runs between a single transverse pin lug, with some staining from a missing iron pin, and a transverse catchplate. Drilling of the pits has produced slight swellings on the reverse, and the metal has been minutely pieced at the base of one hole. This piece is of Continental manufacture and is very close to an example from Balhorn near Paderborn, Germany, which has only five pits (Eggenstein et al. 2008. 290-1, Kat. Nr. 147.8). The type also occurs in Friesland. J. M. Bos (2007/8, 712, Fig. 4a) has classified it as Group 2.3, with "a central cloison", sub-group 2.3.1. with "hubcap-like designs", type 2.3.1.9 with "seven dimples within a scratched circle". It dates from the 9th - 10th century.
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