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Description: | A fragment of a cast copper-alloy saucer brooch of Early-Medieval/Anglo-Saxon date. Approximately three-quarters of the brooch is missing; the surviving fragment consists of a small area of outer rim, the central raised boss and some internal decoration, of the five-pointed star variety. The remains of the catch plate or possibly the single pin lug is retained on the reverse. Stylistically, the brooch is decorated with a raised central boss that may have had a small insert in the cup-like terminal. The outer field is decorated with moulded circumferential lines while within this is a (probable) five-pointed star formed of double concaved arcs. The brooch was probably gilded however none of this now survives.This saucer brooch is very similar to examples from Oxfordshire published by the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (MacGregor and Bolick, 1993:46-47 nos. 2.21-2.23). All three of these examples were excavated from female graves. Broadly speaking, saucer brooches are focused on the Upper Thames region and belong largely to the fifth and sixth centuries AD.
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