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Early-medieval brooch: Disc brooch
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Oxfordshire County Council, Anni Byard, 2015-04-22 14:38:36
Title
Early-medieval brooch: Disc brooch
Description
English: A nearly-complete copper alloy disc brooch of early Anglo-Saxon date. The brooch is in very fine condition, missing only the pin on the reverse. The front of the brooch is decorated Salin's Style II, with an annulet with 'beak' and four bands of interlace. There are three areas with this design, separated by triangular, or 'keystone' cells that are covered with thin silver sheeting. The centre of the brooch has a central pellet around which are two thin circumferential bands joined across their width by four lines, creating four open cell-like features. Around this is a solid circumferential band. The outer edge of the brooch has a raised circumferential band, angain undecorated. The linear and interlace decoration retains traces of gilding. On the reverse of the brooch is the complete hooked catchplate and the lug through which the pin would have been secured. This is now encrusted with iron corrosion, indicating that the pin and possible the rivet were of iron.

Compare LEIC-6554A7, which cites further parallels. They have similarities with jewelled disc brooches of the 6th century AD. Therefore it is likely that this brooch is of a similar date, c. 530-570 AD.

Depicted place (County of findspot) Hampshire
Date between 530 and 570
Accession number
FindID: 715845
Old ref: BERK-D0201B
Filename: 2014895.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/513940
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/513940/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/715845
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Object location51° 09′ 55.8″ N, 1° 10′ 05.38″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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