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Description: | An incomplete Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) copper-alloy and gilded button brooch (c. 450 - c. 550).The brooch is particularly small and has a diameter of 14.01mm. In plan, it is circular and has an up upturned rim. The rim flares outwards at an angle of about 100° from the plane of the plate. The upper surface of the brooch is decorated with central stylised human bust right. It has a rounded helmet, round eye, curving eye-ring and a rounded cheek. The rear face is flat except for the pin-lug and catch-plate. The pin lug is obscured by corroded iron and the catch-plate is incomplete.At the front and rear it is corroded in places and there is gilding at the front and sides. There is no evidence for burning or melting.Diameter: 14.01mm; thickness: 4.19mm; overall thickness: 9.62mm. Weight: 3.70g.This brooch has been classified as a Suzuki Type L (Suzuki 2008: 203, Plate 206).Button brooches are distinguished by their small size and by the anthropomorphic face-masks which they feature. They may have been used in different ways as dress fasteners. It is thought that they may have been used singly rather than in pairs like the similar but larger saucer brooches. Button brooches are found throughout much of southern England and date between the later fifth and mid-sixth centuries.Similar brooches have been recorded from the Isle of Wight. See Portable Antiquities Scheme finds: IOW-5AEB62 and IOW-AABE51.Suzuki, S. 2008. Anglo-Saxon Button Brooches. Typology, Genealogy, Chronolgy. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press.
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