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Brooch, nummular
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Kevin Leahy, 2012-04-05 21:32:19
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Brooch, nummular
Description
English: Cast copper alloy nummular brooch, 24mm in diameter and bearing, on its face, a profile bust of a man, facing right. His face is in moulded detail with a sharp nose, curved chin and a large pellet eye surmounted by an L shaped brow. The hair is represented by a series of short radiating lines surrounded by a line of small pellets. Around the edge of the disc are three circumferential rings of raised pellets, each smaller than the pellets in the ring they surround. On the back of the brooch is perforated lug through which the pin was attached. The catch plate is missing.

This brooch belongs to series originally based on coins of the Carolingian Emperor Louis the Pious (814-840) which, in turn, were based on late Roman coins. The three rows of pellets around the edge represent the rings of beaded filigree mount which surround the coin on the original brooches. These brooches were copied with increasing crudity, this example is likely to have been imported from the continent, but may be a local product.

Brooches of this type are discussed in Leahy, K 2006, 'Anglo-Saxon coin brooches' in B. Cook and G. Williams Coinage and History in the North Sea World c. 500-1250 pp 267-286
Depicted place (County of findspot) Cambridgeshire
Date between 830 and 950
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FindID: 497145
Old ref: FAKL-DFD6D3
Filename: Swaffham Prior Nummular brooch Composite.jpg
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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/376709
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/376709/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/497145
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