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Early-medieval button brooch
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Early-medieval button brooch
Description
English: Early Anglo-Saxon button brooch of Avent and Evison's Class I, probably Class Ii. Only the centre of the brooch survives, with much of the rim missing. There is hair rather than a helmet, a continuously vertically ribbed crescent around the top of the face. Below the hair are two round pellet eyes, with a groove separating these from the hair; there are no brow ridges. A ridge runs down between the eyes to for the nose. A single squarish boss forms each cheek and between the lower cheeks, below the nose, are two curved blocks making mouth and chin.

The curved mouth and chin give the face a chubby smiling aspect which is unlike most button brooches. Although one Class Ii and two Class I2 brooch, both from Oxfordshire, also have fully ridged hair (Suzuki 2008, pls. 170, 174, 176) none of the known Class Is is very much like the Ewelme brooch. A further Class I2 brooch from Chirton in Wiltshire is recorded on the PAS database, WILT-25DE61, and is perhaps the closest parallel to the Ewelme example.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Oxfordshire
Date between 450 and 550
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FindID: 590698
Old ref: FAHG-1AD586
Filename: FAHG-1AD586 button brooch.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/449922
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/449922/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/590698
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Object location51° 37′ 20.64″ N, 1° 03′ 33.88″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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