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Description: | A worn and incomplete cast copper-alloy trefoil brooch of Early-Medieval/Viking date. One of the arms of the trefoil and the pin lug are now missing due to old breaks. It is flat, with tongue-shaped arms arms radiating from a central triangular panel. On the back face of the brooch, where the two surviving arms meet, is an integrally cast hooked catchplate that is U-shaped in form with one open side to accommodate the now missing pin. The front face of the object has moulded decoration comprising a double ridged border that both delineates the central triangular panel and traces the edges of each tongue-shaped arm. At the centre of the triangle is a ring and dot motif and at the centre of each arm is a large foliate or leaf-shaped motif with notched sides. The entire object has worn surfaces and measures 38.69mm in width, 21.52mm in surviving length, 1.23mm in thickness (5.95mm at catchplate), and 4.72g in weight.This is an incomplete trefoil brooch of Early-Medieval date. A number of parallels to this brooch, with trefoil form and stylised leaf decoration, have been noted from Norfolk and Suffolk and recorded through the PAS database (e.g. SF-C7C9B1, SF-4F9CC8 or NMS-10A1E1). These have been identified as being of Scandinavian type with parallels in Maixner Type G 1.3 brooches, indicating a date range for the current example in the 9th century AD. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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