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Description: | Late Saxon copper alloy bird brooch of probable Scandinavian origin and decorated in Urnes/Ringerike style with a grooved wing, a triangular tail and a spiral shoulder. There is a close resemblance to brooches from South Ormsby, Lincolnshire and Stoke Holy Cross, Norfolk (HER 24332, Kershaw 2013, 123, fig. 3.74), but the reverse of this present piece lacks both a catchplate and a pin lug. In the centre an irregular deposit of shiny material may be solder for the attachment of a separate pin arrangement. A broadly similar piece from Nottinghamshire was considered by Kershaw to be an unfinished brooch (DENO-0604D2). Length, width and thickness and 38, 23 and 3mm. Weight 8.89g. 11th century.Field WYRD
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