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BROOCH
Unique ID: KENT-BF85A3
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete cast copper alloy Early Medieval brooch fragment, dating to the 5th century AD. Aberg type I/Mortimer A. The head-plate is trapezoidal, slightly narrower at the top and undecorated. There are three integrally cast half round knops; all three have with two ribs on the lower part before a concave molding before the round cross sectioned knop. There is a triangular panel at the start of the bow decorated with a transverse line, with triangular facets to either side shortly after which the bow, which is 'D' shaped in section, is broken. Most of the bow, and the footplate are missing. On the reverse is a single pin lug retaining part of the corroded iron spring. The breaks are not recent.
The brooch is 22.06mm long, 28.9mm wide, 3.2mm thick and weighs 6.27 grams.
Class: Cruciform
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 400
Date to: Circa AD 500
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 22.06 mm
Width: 28.9 mm
Thickness: 3.2 mm
Weight: 6.27 g
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Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Buckinghamshire (County)
District: Aylesbury Vale (District)
To be known as: BIERTON WITH BROUGHTON
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Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Walton Rogers, P. | 2007 | Cloth and Clothing in Early Anglo-Saxon England: AD 450-700 | York | Council for British Archaeology | 118 |
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