File:NARC-7B5E68, scandinavian bird brooch front (FindID 514356).jpg
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[edit]NARC-7B5E68: scandinavian bird brooch front | |||
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Northamptonshire County Council, Julie Cassidy, 2012-07-31 12:02:30 |
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NARC-7B5E68: scandinavian bird brooch front |
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English: A cast copper alloy brooch in the form of a bird. The bird is facing left, and has a rounded head, but the beak is missing. The body is a long oval shape in plan, ending in a rectangular tail. The feet are worn and an inverted V shape. The feathers and wings are suggested by deep incised lines on the body. The reverse is slightly concave with no obvious sign of a inge attachment or cachplate, although a diagonal scar across the central area may be what remains of a pin or loop. There is evidence of silvering on the reverse.
The feet may be incomplete, as other examples have a drilled hole between the feet to aid with the attatching to a garment. The brooch is similar to a form of brooch originalting in Scandinavia, known as a cross-on-bird type. This example is unusual in that there is no cross. The bird is probably a dove (symbol of the Holy Spirit) A gilded-silver parallel can be found on the PAS database at SUSS-44F203, and a plain silver one at KENT-9F6987. Cross-on-bird brooches made from copper-alloy are recorded on the PAS database at SF-7B3CA5, BERK-5DED86 and SF-BCC403. Cross-on-bird brooches are a relatively uncommon type, with finds recorded by Pedersen (1999) from Denmark (fig. 11b), England (fig. 19c), Germany (figs. 20 and 22) and France (fig. 21). Their date-range is thought to be 800-1100 (Pedersen 1999, 64). Also see A. Gannon (2003) The Iconography of Early Anglo-Saxon Coins, pp. 114-5, where it is argued that one of these brooches (from Berinsfield) carries a fledgling rather than a cross on its back. Dr. Kevin Leahy states that: (although there is no direct parallel for the brooch) "this brooch is best placed amongst a group of eleventh century bird brooches which are found both here and in Scandinavia". Similar can be seen on this database at SF-3E99F3; BERK-5DED86; NLM-4341, NMS-E7F720 and NLM5638. |
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Depicted place | (County of findspot) Cambridgeshire | ||
Date | between 800 and 1100 | ||
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FindID: 514356 Old ref: NARC-7B5E68 Filename: NARC-7B5E68a.jpg |
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https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/390463 Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/390463/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/514356 |
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Object location | 52° 18′ 12.24″ N, 0° 22′ 51.88″ W ![]() | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | ![]() |
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