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BROOCH
Unique ID: BERK-483476
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete copper alloy Anglo-Saxon disc brooch. The upper surface has incised decoration in the form of a ring and dot in the centre, with a second outer ring. The edges of the brooch as damaged which may hide any other decoration, such as another circumferential line, often seen on brooches of this period. The reverse of the brooch is generally flat and retains the remains of a pin hinge lug and some of the catchplate. The iron pin is missing. On both surfaces there are traces of a white metal coating, the brooch having originally been either tinned or silvered. AD 410-600.
Class: disc
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Ascribed Culture:
Anglo-Saxon style
Date from: Circa AD 450
Date to: Circa AD 550
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 2.32 mm
Weight: 16.1 g
Diameter: 40.59 mm
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: 2012.135
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Oxfordshire (County)
District: Cherwell (District)
To be known as: Bicester area
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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