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Description: | Distorted fragment, approximatetely one quarter, of a copper alloy sheet disc decorated with two small repoussé bosses and three pointed oval shapes formed from slightly wavy engraved lines. Perhaps part of a Late Saxon disc brooch which would have had a pin lug and catchplate attached to the reverse with solder. The complete disc would have displayed five such bosses around a central one, all linked by lentoids to depict a cinquefoil. This is a variation on the eight peripheral bosses seen on a silver brooch from the late 9th-century Beeston Tor hoard (Wilson 1964, 120-1, pl. XI no. 3), on the early 11th-century Sutton brooch, also of silver (ibid., 174-7, pl. XXX1 no. 83), on a 9th / 10th-century pewter brooch from the Thames (ibid., 178-9, pl. XXXII no. 88),and on a silver example from Bredfield, Suffolk, which has been dated to the 11th century (SF-92B213). There is no additonal decoration on the present fragment to assist in dating, but a range similar to that of the Bredfield piece is perhaps most likely. Diameter (estimated) c.35mm.Thickness 0.5mm. 11th century.
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