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Description: | Corroded and bent arm from a Late Saxon gilt copper alloy trefoil brooch, with ancient breaks. Decoration comprises a Borre-style animal in relief with remains of six punched ring-and-dots on either side of the inward-facing animal head. The rear face has the corroded stumps of a double pin-lug within a patch of white-metal coating (tinning or silvering). Length more than 38mm. Width more than 23mm. Maixner 2005 Typ Z 4.2, and very similar to an example from Løten, Hedmark, Norway (ibid. Taf.39.6). Seven other examples of the type cited by Maixner (ibid. 324-5, Karte 28) were found in Norway (2), Sweden (2) and Denmark (3), and one has recently been found in Happisburgh, Norfolk (HER 56871). 10th century.
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