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Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon): Ansate Brooch
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Frank Basford, 2020-02-06 14:52:13
Title
Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon): Ansate Brooch
Description
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A fragment of an Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) copper-alloy ansate brooch (c. 700-c. 1000).Weetch type II.iii.

One terminal and the bow survives, the remaining part of the brooch is missing.

The brooch has a flat sub-circular/discoidal terminal. The front of the terminal has incised decoration, a central ring-and-dot motif with an annulet to either side. The bow is ‘D’-shaped in cross-section, flat at the rear.

This brooch is corroded and has a brown patina. The break is old.

Length: 28.2mm; width of terminal: 10.4mm; thickness of terminal: 1.9mm; width of bow: 5.0mm; thickness of bow: 2.6mm. Weight: 2.32g.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Isle of Wight
Date between 700 and 1000
Accession number
FindIdentifier: 992021
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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/1091271
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/1091271/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/992021
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