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Description: | About two-thirds of a Late Saxon copper alloy disc brooch, with cast Borre style decoration comprising concave-sided figure with each of the four corners extended to form interlaced, double contoured knots. In rather worn condition. In the reverse there are stumps of the transverse pin lug near the edge. 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 and Margeson and Williams in Ayers 1985, 28-9, fig. 24 no. 1. Kershaw 2013, 60-1, fig. 3.19, East Anglian Series Type II.
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