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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy disc brooch of Early-Medieval date. It is missing some enamel and the pin due to old breaks, now worn.The front face is decorated with a red enamel equal-armed cross with rounded corners. In the centre of the cross is a circular field of red enamel. The fields between the cross are also decorated with red enamel. Some of the enamel is missing from one of the arms of the cross. All enamel is flush with the surrounding surface of the metal.On the back face is an integrally cast transverse pin lug and transverse catch plate. There is the remains of a corroded iron pin in the pin lug.This brooch measures 18.60mm in diameter, 2.37mm in thickness, 3.29g in weight.This brooch is likely to be late Anglo-Saxon (10th or 11th century) in date as it is similar to several examples in D. Buckton, 1986 (Medieval Archaeology vol. 30, pp.10, no. 5, 6). There are also similar examples recorded on the PAS database (SF9519), (SF-29EFB2), (NMS-8B7666), (NMS-DBA5E8), (ESS-5E37A1).
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