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Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) Small Square-headed Brooch
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Frank Basford, 2017-05-05 17:16:21
Title
Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) Small Square-headed Brooch
Description
English: A fragment of an Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) Kentish style copper-alloy and gilded small square-headed brooch (c. 450-c. 600).

The fragment is the foot of the brooch. It is sub-lozenge-shaped in plan and the front has a chip-carved panel with voided central concave-sided lozenge. There is a small projection at one end and the wings are missing. At the rear the catch-plate is complete.

This brooch is corroded overall except where gilding survives at the front. The breaks are old.

Length: 18.0mm; width: 7.1mm; thickness: 2.0mm; thickness including catch-plate: 7.0mm. Weight: 1.35g.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Isle of Wight
Date between 475 and 550
Accession number
FindID: 845634
Old ref: IOW-B42ECF
Filename: IOW20177107c.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/613803
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/613803/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/845634
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