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BROOCH
Unique ID: DENO-0604D2
Object type certainty: Probably
Workflow
status: Published 
Early Medieval mount; Anglo-Saxon, cast copper alloy mount in the shape of a bird, possibly a cockerel. Flat mount with incised decoration on one face showing a bird, facing left, with hooked beak, small crest on the head, pointed wing extending up and backwards and thick curved tail. The feet are openwork but the area inside the beak has not been pierced. There is an incised oval for the eye and an indication of some patterning on the wing, although this is indistinct. This object can be compared with a series of bird brooches of late Anglo-Saxon date, which have feet standing on a 'perch'. Other bird brooches of the same or related types which can be found on the PAS database include NMS-E7F720 (this entry has further refs), SF-AD5FA7, SF-7B3CA5, SF-BCC403, SUSS-44F203 and KENT-9F6987. Also see Benet A09-0204, p. 289, for stylistic similarities (infill behind curled beak, shape of wing etc.) Height 26.70mm, width 41.52mm, thickness 3.56mm, weight 9.88g.
Jane Kershaw has confirmed this as a Scandinavian type bird brooch which is probably unfinished.
Find of note status
This has been noted as an interesting find by the recorder.
Sub class: bird
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Ascribed Culture:
Viking style
Date from: Circa AD 850
Date to: Circa AD 1000
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 26.7 mm
Width: 41.52 mm
Thickness: 3.56 mm
Weight: 9.88 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 1st January 1990
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: DERBY E5588
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Nottinghamshire (County)
District: Newark and Sherwood (District)
Parish or ward: Cromwell (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SK8062
Four figure Latitude: 53.149142
Four figure longitude: -0.805274
1:25K map: SK8062
1:10K map: SK86SW
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Murawski, P.G. | 2003 | Benet's Artefacts of England & the United Kingdom | Cambridge | P. G. Murawski | page 289 | A09-0204 |
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