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BROOCH
Unique ID: IOW-B3C471
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Published 
An incomplete Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) copper-alloy small radiate-headed brooch (c. 500-c. 600). The pin and the lower part of the foot are missing.
The brooch has a semi-circular head plate engraved with an arc of chip-carved zig-zag ornament within a continuous grooved border. However, due to corrosion, only the lower part of the border has survived. The head-plate has three small pointed protrusions or knobs, one at the top and one at each lower side. The parallel-sided bow is slightly arched in side view, convex at the front and flat at the rear. The front of the bow is corroded but seems to have had two vertical grooves running down the centre. These can be seen at the top and bottom. The parallel-sided foot is chip-carved and forms basketwork-like decoration of vertical and shorter horizontal lines. At the rear of the head-plate a single 'D'-shaped pin-lug has an iron axis bar with iron corrosion to each side of the lug. To the rear of the foot a catch-plate is triangular in side view.
The brooch is corroded and has gilding at the front only.
Length: 25.6mm; width of head-plate: 16.0mm; depth of head-plate: 10.7mm; length of bow: c. 11.0mm; width of bow: 5.2mm; thickness of bow: 1.6mm; length of pin-lug: 4.6mm; width of pin-lug: 1.7mm; thickness of pin-lug: c. 5.3mm; length of catch-plate: 4.4mm; width of catch-plate: 3.5mm; thickness of catch-plate: 1.0mm; overall thickness including pin-lug: 7.8mm. Weight: 2.24g.
There is no evidence for melting or burning.
A similar brooch from Chatham Lines, Kent has been published (MacGregor and Bolick 1993: 149, ref: 16.5).
Compare with IOW-273A25 and KENT-CC01C4. Also compare a similar brooch excavated excavated in 1994 at Buckland Dover in Kent (grave 102; Brugmann in Parfitt and Anderson 2012, 80, fig. 10.20).
Find of note status
This is a find of note and has been designated: County / local importance
Class: radiate headed
Subsequent actions
Current location of find: Finder
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 500
Date to: Circa AD 570
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 25.6 mm
Width: 16 mm
Thickness: 7.8 mm
Weight: 2.24 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 17th June 2017 - Saturday 17th June 2017
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: IOW2017-3-84
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Iron
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: Gilded
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Isle of Wight (Unitary Authority)
District: Isle of Wight (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Isle of Wight
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MacGregor, A. and Bolick, E. | 1993 | A summary catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon collections (non-ferrous metals), Ashmolean Museum, Oxford | Oxford | Tempvs Reparatum | 49 | 16.5 | |
| Parfitt, K. and Anderson, T | 2012 | Buckland Anglo-Saxon Cemetery, Dover: Excavations 1994 | Canterbury | Canterbury Archaeological Trust |
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