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Description: | Early Medieval (Viking) copper alloy trefoil brooch. 42mm long, 41mmm wide and 2mm thick. The brooch is in very good condition and weighs 12.88grams. The brooch is flat and has three arms with rounded terminals. The brooch is decorated with a central triangle formed of two incised lines. Each arm of the brooch also has a double incised border which butts up to the central triangle. Inside this, each arm is decorated with a further linear border which contains a series of diagonally positioned sub-triangular 'nicks' running down each edge. This gives an appearance of a leaf motif. many of these brooches have ring and dot motifs where each arm joins, These do not appear on this example, but where they would be positioned the surface is undecorated suggesting they may have been left out?The reverse of the brooch has the scar of a lug/loop, centrally placed on one arm. On another arm, near its centre, it has what appears to be a repair, probably for a replacement catchplate. There is a roughly cut sub- rectangular plate which curves upwards at one side, suggesting part of it has been broken off. This has been rivetted onto the edge of the brooch. Traces of this can just be seen on the brooches surface, showing as a break in the outer border.The brooch is a Maixner Type G 1.3, dating circa AD 850-950 and is very similar to LIN-56D731 and DENO-E9A0F5Found in the same parish as LEIC-A12430
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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