Record ID: KENT2347 - EARLY MEDIEVAL brooch

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BROOCH

Unique ID: KENT2347

Object type certainty: Certain

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Early Anglo-Saxon bow brooch cast in copper alloy, approximately 50mm long. The semi-circular headplate has an intergral semi-circular knop at its apex. The bow is curved with a prominant ridge running along the centre. The footplate is rectangular, with an intergral semi-circular knop on the two left corners. There are no knops on right hand side corners of the footplate, and the edge where they would have been attached is worn. The footplate terminates in a long, narrow triangular projection. The circumference of the headplate, and the triangular terminal of the brooch are decorated with tripple-pelleted punched triangles. B. Ager (British Museum) believes that the punch decoration can be paralleled in other Anglo-Saxon and contemporary North German and Scandinavian metalwork. The brooch is most likely an Anglo-Saxon immitation of a continental type. The form (but not the decoration) of the brooch is similar to Werner (1961) Katalog der Sammlung Diergardt figure 71. This type of brooch is dated to the late 5th to mid 6th century.

Notes:

This brooch has been classed as a miniature radiate headed brooch, due to the semi-curcular headplate shared with Frankish radiate brooched. However, the headplate on this brooch form does not have the radiating knops around its circumference, which gives the radiate brooches their name. Continental brooches of a similar form have been termed 'miniaturefibeln' or miniature brooches. A further study on these small semi-circular headed brooches is needed to understand their relationship woth other brooch forms from this period.

Class: Bow Brooch

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 475
Date to: AD 550

Dimensions and weight

Length: 50 mm
Quantity: 1

Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Manufacture method: Cast [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Decoration style: Geometric [scope notes | view all attributed records]

Spatial data

Region: South East And London
County: Kent
District: Canterbury
Parish: Littlebourne

Restricted 4 Figure grid reference: TR2057
The map has been degraded and provides an approximate location with a degree of random obfuscation.
Grid reference source: Centred on village (which isn't a parish)
Grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.

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

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Friday 7th January 2000

Personal details

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

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