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Description: | Late Saxon tinned copper alloy disc brooch, deeply-cast Borre style decoration comprising concave-sided figure with each of the four corners extended to form interlaced, double contoured knots, circular sunken field in centre. On the reverse there is an single pin lug aligned with the outside edge and containing corroded remains of the iron pin and a broken catchplate set at right-angles to the edge. The face of the brooch is covered with a black deposit, probably carbon. This is a common 10th-century brooch type in East Anglia carrying a design based on a Scandinavian prototype, see West 1998, fig. 134.8, Margeson 1997, fig. 28 and Margeson and Williams in Ayers 1985, fig. 24 no. 1. Kershaw 2010 East Anglian Series Type 1. Diam.28mm.
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