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Ansate Brooch
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Kent County Council, Sarah Downum, 2019-09-27 15:55:32
Title
Ansate Brooch
Description
English: An incomplete cast copper alloy Early-Medieval parallel-sided ansate (caterpillar) brooch, dating to the period c.700-900.

Description: The brooch survives as the head with part of the pin-lug and less than half of the bow which is formed in D-shaped cross-section. The head terminals swirls slightly along the sides. The front is decorated with an incised ring-and-dot motif with two on the head and two on the bow, which are separated by a raised bar. The reverse pin-lug is pierced, one lug having snapped across the piercing. Evidence of the iron pin remains as corrosion on the more complete lug. The copper-alloy has a muddled green to yellow colour, with more muddy brown-red on the pin bar, on the reverse around the pin-lug, and bottom right looking from the front. There is abrasion along the edges of the brooch, and the break across the bow is slightly worn but un-patternated, indicating that the break has happened within the recent historic past.

Measurement: Length: 27.75mm x Width 12.04mm (at terminal) 10.83 (at bow) x Thickness 7.53mm (3mm at bow) x Weight 3.91g

Discussion: This brooch is similar to Nos. 1293-1303 in Weetch (2014, 160-3), which are classified as her ansate Type X, but the abrasion around the head makes it difficult to be certain of the classification.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Kent
Date between 700 and 900
Accession number
FindIdentifier: 972972
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/1074790
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/1074790/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/972972
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Object location51° 08′ 48.12″ N, 1° 19′ 18.66″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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