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Description: | An Early Medieval cast copper-alloy late early-medieval cloisonné brooch of the late 10th/11th century AD. The brooch consists of a raised trefoil shaped, convex centre plate from which nine equally spaced integral lobes would emerge; a tenth lobe appears to have been broken away. Three of the lobes, at 2. 6 and 10 O'clock are significantly larger than the other (5.5mm in diameter). One of these has a dark blue glass sphere attached to the front and it is probable there were similar spheres on the other two larger lugs what have concave recesses to receive them. .The other three lugs are convex and 3.4mm in diameter and show traces of gilding.Within the centerpiece the main ground for the enamel design is dark green. Set within cells defined by copper wire, the design broadly consists of a central heart shape itself formed of two blue segments molded around two central pellets in red and yellow. At the base of the heart two symmetrical blue swirl shapes emerge from which red and white segments branch off into the two lower lobes of the trefoil shape of the brooch. Above the heart is a blue teardrop above a white circle. The enamel decoration has been damaged in several places and some of the segments are missing. It appears that all of the visible metal surrounding the enamel was gilded.The back has two pairs of horizontally aligned tabs on either side of the narrowing neck of the trefoil shape. The right hand tab is the remains of the pin lugs and bar. The catch-plate has been mostly broken away. Traces of gilt survive all over the object particularly on the reverse. The motifs used on such brooches are highly variable and most are unique within the current corpus; however the use of heart shape is common. The trefoil shape of the brooch is unusual and no parallel has been found.The brooch is 40.9mm long, 39.8mm wide, 5.4mm thick and weighs 14.47 grams.
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