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Description: | A fragment from a cast copper alloy Early Medieval brooch, circa AD 400-600. The fragment is from an Early Anglo Saxon saucer brooch. The brooch has an irregular shape in plan with a surviving brooch circumference and 3 broken and abraded edges. The fragment is contorted with the area of the plate next to the pin lug forming a humped profile. The upper face is very worn with a double-ribbed interlace design within a plain border on both sides just discernable. The reverse is plain with an integrally cast lug surviving. The lug is rounded. A build-up of brown corrosion is present next to the lug, possibly the remains of an iron pin. Originally there would have been a pair of lugs to form a hinge. It is uncertain whether the second lug is present but covered with iron corrosion, or whether it has broken off. The brooch has a mid grey / green patina. A comparable brooch is recorded in MacGregor and Bolick 1993 A Summary Catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon Collections B.A.R. 120, p. 42. A more complete example of a similar saucer brooch is recorded under reference WAW-D0BED7The fragment measures 20.18mm long and 11.23mm wide. The thickness of the brooch plate is 1.39mm which increases to 8.47mm when including the lugs. Weight: 2.4g.The brooch is a saucer type brooch, which are usually associated with women and worn in pairs which date to the 5th and 6th centuries (MacGregor and Bolick 1993 A Summary Catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon Collections B.A.R. 120, p. 42). A fragment from a similar brooch was found nearby, see record WAW-A96BF2. Both brooch fragments include a pin lug and therefore are from different brooches rather than being fragments from the same brooch.
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