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BROOCH
Unique ID: SUR-1CB11A
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
An Early Anglo-Saxon gilded copper alloy cast saucer brooch dating to c. 480-570 AD. The brooch has been badly plough damaged and has a substantial tear across its middle. The brooch is otherwise complete, save for the missing iron pin. The brooch has a central domed flat-topped circular boss surrounded by two concentric circular ridges. The edge of the brooch has two further concentric ridges and a flared undecorated rim. The field between is infilled with relief zoomorphic decoration of simplified and geometricised Salin's Style I. Short groups of parallel ridges can probably be identified as body blocks, but no heads, legs or other body parts are visible. On the reverse are a single pin bar lug and catchplate, both radially set, and corrosion from the remains of an iron pin.
Notes:
See also SUR-1C82C9 with which this brooch may have been a pair. Both are probably associated with one or more inhumations.
Find of note status
This has been noted as an interesting find by the recorder.
Class:
cast saucer
Sub class: Style I
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 480
Date to: Exactly AD 570
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Weight: 19.5 g
Diameter: 44.27 mm
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: 15-662
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Completeness: Complete
Surface Treatment: Gilded
Spatial metadata
Region: West Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Warwickshire (County)
District: Stratford-on-Avon (District)
Parish or ward: Long Compton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SP2931
Four figure Latitude: 51.97671427
Four figure longitude: -1.57921086
1:25K map: SP2931
1:10K map: SP23SE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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