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BROOCH
Unique ID: BUC-4D849D
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
Incomplete copper-alloy strip brooch made in one piece. The plate is complete and lozenge-shaped, slightly longer than it is wide, with one narrower end extended into a wire spring (now broken and incomplete). The other end has no elaboration to the corner, and has a pair of rivet holes which are not obviously secondary, and which must have held a separate catch, possibly a repair but probably an original feature.
The brooch is decorated with a broad border, inside a narrow reserved outer border. This broad border is decorated with groups of herringbone grooving. Within this is another concentric reserved strip, then a further concentric groove around a central cross with round-ended arms almost forming a circle. The cross is decorated with a fine groove halfway between the edge and the centre, and there is a short groove along the long axis of the lozenge filling the space above and below the cross. The pair of rivet holes are cut through the outer border and the herringbone ornament, and the slightly larger single hole is neatly cut through both.
Length 66.04 mm, width 31.57 mm, thickness 1.1 mm, weight 9.32 g. The decorated panel is 47.8 mm x 28.94mm. Compare BUC-EE18C6 and SUR-47F8A7, which have a similar arrangement of holes, and WAW-A63E97 and CAM-A4DEEE, which have similar decoration.
Class:
strip
Sub class: Weetch type 31.C
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Middle
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Middle
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Ascribed Culture:
Anglo-Saxon style
Date from: Circa AD 700
Date to: Circa AD 800
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 66.04 mm
Width: 31.57 mm
Thickness: 1.1 mm
Weight: 9.32 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 7th May 2014
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: Gilded
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Buckinghamshire (County)
District: Aylesbury Vale (District)
To be known as: Quainton
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
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