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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy saucer brooch of Early-Medieval/Anglo-Saxon date. The brooch is missing most of its outer circumference and its entire angled rim; stylistically, the brooch is decorated with a raised central boss surrounded by an irregular circle, further enclosed by a five-pointed star formed of double concaved arcs and a border of three concentric circles with a wavy/ zig-zag band between the outer two. All of this decoration is gilded. Only a small area of the outer rim band survives, and this has been drilled from front-to-back, probably to enable the broken brooch to hang as a pendant. On the reverse, only a small section of each the catchplate and pin hinge survives. Small areas of silver suggest that the brooch was silvered of tinned on the reverse.It is unclear if the brooch suffered damage to its outer rim before it was transformed into a pendant, or if most of the rim was removed to do so; the outer edge is rough and is possibly clipped around the edge of the outermost area of decoration suggesting modification of the brooch. It is not possible to offer a date for the period of reuse.This saucer brooch is very similar to examples from Oxfordshire published by the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (MacGregor and Bolick, 1993:46-47 nos. 2.21-2.23). All three of these examples were excavated from female graves. Broadly speaking, saucer brooches are focused on the Upper Thames region and belong largely to the fifth and sixth centuries AD.
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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