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Description: | An incomplete and worn cast copper-alloy Middle Anglo-Saxon disc brooch with relief decoration depicting a backward-looking animal. It is missing part of the edge of the brooch, most of the pin lug, pin and catchplate due to old breaks. The front face has as its central decorative motif a quadruped standing left with all four legs visible, its head facing backwards and a triangular pointed tail bent forwards over the back to meet the head. Toes or claws are visible on each foot and the back of the head and neck has spiked or zig-zag edges representing a mane. The animal has an open mouth, and is contained within an irregular border formed from triangles or rectangles. The back face is flat and undecorated. To one side it has the corroded remains of a double pin lug, while at the opposite side is a small semi-circular catchplate that is missing its outer edge due to old breaks. The entire object measures 30.26mm in diameter, 2.46mm in thickness, and weighs 10.10g.This is a copper-alloy disc brooch of Middle or Late Anglo-Saxon date, with several other similar examples recorded from Suffolk (see for example West, 1998: nos. 10.4, 11.2, 15.6, 17.2, 46.2, 46.8, 47.6, 56.9, 96.3, 97.6; and on the PAS SF-0CEA72 and SF-B91713). The date is uncertain; the 8th-9th centuries have been suggested, but a similar brooch found in an early 10th-century context in 16-22 Coppergate, York, gives the best archaeological date for the series (Roesdahl 1981: 75, 105).
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