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Description: | Late Saxon copper alloy disc brooch, moulded Borre-style decoration comprising a concave-sided figure with each of the four corners extended to form interlaced, double contoured knots. On the reverse a single pin lug is aligned parallel with the edge and at right angles to the catchplate. The whole is bent across the centre and cracked at one end of the fold. The iron pin is missing. Diameter 28.5mm. A common 10th-century type in East Anglia carrying a design based on a Scandinavian prototype, see West 1998, fig. 134.8, Margeson 1997, fig. 28, Margeson and Williams in Ayers 1985, fig. 24 no. 1 and Jane Kershaw 2010, Culture and Gender in the Danelaw: Scandinavian and Anglo-Scandinavian Brooches, 850-1050, 186-187, East Anglian Series Type 1 (unpublished PhD thesis, Oxford).
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