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.<\/p>","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.<\/p>","old_findID":"KENT2347","id":"3079","objecttype":"BROOCH","classification":"Bow Brooch","subclass":null,"reuse":null,"created":"2000-12-15 00:00:00","broadperiod":"EARLY MEDIEVAL","updated":"2011-02-24 12:21:54","treasureID":null,"secwfstage":"4","secuid":"0013EA1612001C1F","findofnote":null,"objecttypecert":"1","datefound1":"2000-01-07","datefound2":null,"createdBy":"4","curr_loc":null,"inscription":null,"reason":null,"subsequentAction":"Returned to finder"}],"record":[{"id":"3079","old_findID":"KENT2347","uniqueID":"0013EA1612001C1F","objecttype":"BROOCH","classification":"Bow Brooch","subclass":null,"length":"50","height":null,"width":null,"thickness":null,"diameter":null,"quantity":"1","other_ref":null,"treasureID":null,"broadperiod":"EARLY MEDIEVAL","numdate1":"475","numdate2":"550","description":"
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.<\/p>","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.<\/p>","reuse":null,"created":"2000-12-15 00:00:00","updated":"2011-02-24 12:21:54","secwfstage":"4","findofnote":null,"objecttypecert":"1","datefound1":"2000-01-07","datefound2":null,"inscription":null,"disccircum":null,"museumAccession":null,"subsequentAction":"1","objectCertainty":"1","dateFromCertainty":"1","dateToCertainty":null,"dateFoundFromCertainty":"3","dateFoundToCertainty":null,"subPeriodFrom":"1","subPeriodTo":null,"reason":null,"username":"mlewis","fullname":"Michael Lewis","institution":"PAS","usernameUpdate":"dpett","fullnameUpdate":"Daniel Pett","primaryMaterial":"Copper alloy","secondaryMaterial":null,"decoration":null,"style":"Geometric","manufacture":"Cast","surfaceTreatment":null,"completeness":null,"preservation":null,"cert":"Certain","periodFrom":"EARLY MEDIEVAL","periodTo":null,"culture":"Anglo-Saxon","discmethod":"Metal detector","finder":null,"identifier":"Mr Barry Ager","secondaryIdentifier":" Laura McLean","recorder":" Michael Lewis","county":"KENT","parish":"LITTLEBOURNE","district":"CANTERBURY","easting":null,"northing":null,"gridref":null,"fourFigure":"TR2057","map25k":"TR6215","map10k":"TR25NW","address":null,"postcode":null,"findspotdescription":null,"lat":null,"lon":null,"knownas":null,"source":null,"obverse_description":null,"obverse_inscription":null,"reverse_description":null,"reverse_inscription":null,"denomination":null,"degree_of_wear":null,"allen_type":null,"va_type":null,"mack":null,"reeceID":null,"die":null,"wearID":null,"moneyer":null,"revtypeID":null,"categoryID":null,"typeID":null,"tribeID":null,"status":null,"rulerQualifier":null,"denominationQualifier":null,"mintQualifier":null,"dieAxisCertainty":null,"initialMark":null,"reverseMintMark":null,"statusQualifier":null,"tribe":null,"region":null,"area":null,"ruler1":null,"ruler2":null,"period_name":null,"date_range":null,"mint_name":null,"wear":null,"die_axis_name":null,"category":null,"type":null,"emperorID":null,"mintid":null,"reverseType":null,"i":null,"f":null,"imagedir":null}]}