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BROOCH
Unique ID: BERK-4AE6C5
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete cast copper alloy Anglo-Saxon small long brooch dating to the 6th century AD. The brooch is missing its head plate and the curved bow; a sub-lozenge shaped body narrows into a short neck that is delineated by a thick rasied band set horizontally across the brroch; beneath this band in the expanded crescentic foot. The brooch is worn and is suffering from corrosion and it is not possible to tell what the decorative style was, however traces of tinning or silvering are extant. On the reverse part of the catchplate remains. A similar example but with a more rounded foot was recovered from the cemetery at Wally Corner in Berinsfield (Oxon) and is illustrated in MacGregor & Bolick (1993:126) no 15.5. Another similarly styled example from Sussex is illustrated in West et al. 1998 p248 fig 130.4.
Small long brooches were in use during the early Anglo-Saxon period (AD c.410-720) and are generally dated from the 5th to the 6th centuries AD.
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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
Length: 45.51 mm
Width: 21.4 mm
Thickness: 8.92 mm
Weight: 10 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: 2013.676
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Oxfordshire (County)
District: Cherwell (District)
To be known as: Cherwell district
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| West, S.E. | 1998 | A Corpus of Anglo-Saxon material from Suffolk | Ipswich | Suffolk County Council |
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