File:Early Medieval, Disc brooch (FindID 252767).jpg

English: An early medieval disc or saucer brooch with a central circular hole. Around the hole, and within a double-line square frame, is a cast design composed of animals in Salin's Style I. On the back are the remains of an iron spring and pin and a scar of the missing catchplate. None of the edges of the brooch appears to be original.

Helen Geake comments:

This could have been a cast saucer brooch: the pin fittings are so close to the edge that there could easily be some of the base missing. Its rim has either sheared off completely in the plough soil (rims are often very thin at the break of angle and come off there) or it has been deliberately sheared off in antiquity, though I might have expected a smoother outcome were this to have been the case.

Tania Dickinson comments:

The ornament is indeed without exact parallel, but not otherwise odd. The Wisley ornament consists entirely of disarticulated hip, leg and foot elements. The square framing lines make me think of the pair of saucer brooches from Alfriston 62 - not a continuous square, but as there perhaps the lines make the 'legs' of a zoomorphic 'swastika', the feet being in the (missing) outer zone. Unlike Alfriston, however, here we would have a zone of complex Style I (a general idea not so uncommon on saucer brooches) inside the swastika. Given both these lines of argument, a Surrey findspot is not so odd - exactly the area where contact between good, south-eastern, Style I and the desire to adapt it to saucer brooches might take place.

For the saucer brooches from Alfriston grave 62, see Griffith and Salzmann 1914 (Sussex Archaeological Collections vol. 56) pl. VI.