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Description: | Late Saxon copper alloy disc brooch, with cast Borre-style decoration comprising a concave-sided figure with each of the four corners extended to form interlaced, double contoured knots. The front is rather worn, and a small piece of the edge is missing. The whole is distorted and cracked. On the reverse the stumps of a transverse pin lug and a catchplate both lie near the edge. Diameter 27mm. 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's (2013, 60-1, fig. 3.19) East Anglian Series Type I.
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