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Early medieval copper alloy trefoil brooch
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Leicestershire County Council, Wendy Scott, 2014-02-11 15:42:07
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Early medieval copper alloy trefoil brooch
Description
English: Early Medieval (Viking) copper alloy trefoil brooch. 42mm long, 41mmm wide and 2mm thick. The brooch is in very good condition and weighs 12.88grams. The brooch is flat and has three arms with rounded terminals. The brooch is decorated with a central triangle formed of two incised lines. Each arm of the brooch also has a double incised border which butts up to the central triangle. Inside this, each arm is decorated with a further linear border which contains a series of diagonally positioned sub-triangular 'nicks' running down each edge. This gives an appearance of a leaf motif. many of these brooches have ring and dot motifs where each arm joins, These do not appear on this example, but where they would be positioned the surface is undecorated suggesting they may have been left out?

The reverse of the brooch has the scar of a lug/loop, centrally placed on one arm. On another arm, near its centre, it has what appears to be a repair, probably for a replacement catchplate. There is a roughly cut sub- rectangular plate which curves upwards at one side, suggesting part of it has been broken off. This has been rivetted onto the edge of the brooch. Traces of this can just be seen on the brooches surface, showing as a break in the outer border.

The brooch is a Maixner Type G 1.3, dating circa AD 850-950 and is very similar to LIN-56D731 and DENO-E9A0F5

Found in the same parish as LEIC-A12430
Depicted place (County of findspot) Lincolnshire
Date between 850 and 950
Accession number
FindID: 600870
Old ref: LEIC-A43E83
Filename: LEIC-A43E83.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/456188
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/456188/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/600870
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Object location53° 18′ 22.32″ N, 0° 16′ 14.79″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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