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Description: | Copper alloy Brooch. Cast disc brooch with an enamelled front in two colours. The enamel fills cells comprising, from the edge inwards: a circumferential border zone [mid blue]; four near-semicircular cells [dull red], arranged so that the gaps between them define the arms of an equal armed cross [mid blue] with a central reserved dot of the same metal as the cell walls. There is the stub of a catch plate and paired lugs retaining the end of a probably hinged pin on the back; the detail of fastening is obscured by a thick coat of transparent varnish which coats the entire object. The object is chipped on opposed edges from an originally circular form to an oval shape.Circular disc brooches were introduced by the Romans, but this example more closely resembles similar shaped brooches dated to the Late Saxon period: examples from Elsham, Horkstow and Swallow, North Lincolnshire, are displayed at the North Lincolnshire Museum. These frequently flaunt an explicitly Christian cross motif, and are ascribed to the period after the Conversion of Viking settlers. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 900-1000.Length: 24.2mm, Width: 19.5mm, Thickness (clear of pin gear): 2.1mm, Weight: 4.91gms.
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