Record ID: KENT2346 - EARLY MEDIEVAL brooch

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BROOCH

Unique ID: KENT2346

Object type certainty: Certain

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Anglo-Saxon bow brooch, cast in copper alloy with traces of tinning on the surface. The headplate is semi-circular with an intergral semi-circular knop at its apex. There is a partial knop remaining on the left of the brooch and the knop from the right is completely missing. These breaks on the headplate are heavily worn. The headplate is decorated with a large, central ring and dot motif, comprised of three rings. Three smaller ring and dot motifs surround the central design, and are positioned approximately in line with the loaction of the three knops, however the one to the right is less precicely placed. The bow is undecorated, narrow and long. It joins the head and footplates with simple horizontal moulding. The lozenge shaped footplate has a large, central ring and dot motif of three rings, with a smaller off centre ring and dot motif above and below it. The condition of the reverse of the brooch is unknown.

This is possibly of Continental origin, or else an Anglo-Saxon immitation of H Kuhn's mainly north Germanic Breitenfurt type.

Notes:

Similar to a recent metal-detector find from the South Downs (Sussex) which Kuhn dates to c.550-575. B Ager thinks this date is rather late for Kent.

Class: Miniature radiate-headed

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Ascribed Culture: Anglo-Saxon [scope notes| view all attributed records]
Date from: Circa AD 500
Date to: AD 599

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1

Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy [scope notes | view all attributed records]

Spatial data

Region: South East And London
County: Kent
District: Canterbury
To be known as: KENT LITTLEBOURNE

Method of discovery: Metal detector [scope notes]
General landuse: Other [scope notes]
Specific landuse: Unknown [scope notes]

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Recorded by: Michael Lewis - [ view all attributed records]
Identified by: Mr Barry Ager - [view all attributed records]

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