Rights Holder: Northamptonshire County Council
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Unique ID: NARC-63CBFD
Object type certainty: Certain
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An incomplete copper alloy annular brooch of quoit type, dating to the early Anglo-Saxon period (AD 470-570). The object is ring-shaped with a broad band and a flat rectangular cross-section. It retains a small rectangular pin hole opposite a V-shaped notch within a sub-rectangular raised border decorated with a single incised transverse line. The brooch is decorated with an inner and an outer repeating punched annulet borders, both of which respect the edges and form of the object. The back of the object is undecorated. There are some remnants of iron corrosion on both the front and back of the perforation which indicated that the lost pin was iron. There is a minor amount of loss of the outer edges of the object caused by post-depositional processes.
The metal is a mid-green in colour with areas of pitting and corrosion.
The ridges around the notch indicate that this annular brooch is of quoit type (Ager 1985).
Diameter: 49.23mm, Width: 11.15mm, Thickness: 1.90mm, Thickness (at rectangular moulding): 3.16mm, Weight: 15.1g
Class: Annular
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 470
Date to: Circa AD 570
Quantity: 1
Width: 11.15 mm
Thickness: 1.9 mm
Weight: 15.1 g
Diameter: 49.23 mm
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4 Figure: SP7587
Four figure Latitude: 52.47578687
Four figure longitude: -0.89720905
1:25K map: SP7587
1:10K map: SP78NE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Ager, B. | 1985 | The Smaller Variants of the Anglo-Saxon Quoit Brooch | Oxford | Oxford University Committee for Archaeology |