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Early Medieval square-headed brooch (probably) fragment.
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Rachel Atherton, 2006-06-28 10:07:14
Title
Early Medieval square-headed brooch (probably) fragment.
Description
English: Fragment of gilded copper-alloy plate, almost certainly part of a headplate from an early Anglo-Saxon great square-headed brooch. The headplate would originally have been roughly rectangular, and covered with relief decoration. What survives consists of an incomplete central rectangular panel containing possible ‘basket weave’ (alternating groups of horizontal and vertical lines), surrounded by a double border and enclosed by another (incomplete) rectangular panel again with basket weave decoration. Around this is a narrow border with regularly spaced (c. 6.5mm apart) groups of three transverse lines with plain panels between, with a narrow plain grooved border around, then traces of another border or rectangular panel around that.

There is no pin bar lug on the reverse, nor is there any means of attachment to show if the fragment has been re-used, for example as a mount. The plate thickens slightly, from 2.5mm at the edges to c.3mm at the central rectangular panel.

The central panel’s surviving decoration consists of a single group of vertical lines on the left and a single group of horizontal lines on the right, and the upper edge of these two groups curves down and up again. A considerable area of the lower part of the central panel must be missing, however, as the pin bar lug(s) should be found on the reverse of the central panel.

There is not enough surviving to allocate this to one of Hines’s great square-headed brooch Groups, but basket weave can be seen on one of the unclassified brooches from Market Overton, Rutland (Hines 1997, pl. 98a) on the sides of the headplate second panel, and also perhaps on another badly preserved unclassified brooch from Brooke, Norfolk (Hines 1997, pl. 99a). Basket-weave patterns are derived from Style I animal art, however, and most great square-headed brooches tend to have less stylised and more naturalistic ornament. Great square-headed brooches date to the sixth century AD.

Length 34.09mm, width 45.70mm, thickness c.2.5-3.0mm, weight 19.18g.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Derbyshire
Date between 500 and 600
Accession number
FindID: 135695
Old ref: DENO-A99355
Filename: E5169 brooch 11 small.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/106590
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/106590/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/135695
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