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Unique ID: BUC-C5BC2E
Object type certainty: Certain
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An incomplete, copper alloy, Early Medieval, equal armed brooch, AD.500-700. The object comprises two oval plates connected by an arched bow. Each of the plates has an upper surface decorated with ring and dot decoration, five on each, these are distributed in a somewhat crude circle. The bow is decorated with incised lines that give it a segmented appearance, there are 7 lines in total. The plates are very thick, approx. 3mm. The back of the brooch is undecorated with the underside of the plates having the hinge and catchplate. The hinge has a large amount of iron staining and the corroded remains of the hinge pin in iron.
Similar brooches to this can be found in Hattatt 2000, fig.239 no.1322-1323, they are listed as Frankish Merovingian in date.
Length: 52.29 mm
Width: 17.57 mm
Thickness: 5.81 mm
Weight: 20.88 g
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 500
Date to: Circa AD 700
Quantity: 1
Length: 52.29 mm
Width: 17.57 mm
Thickness: 5.81 mm
Weight: 20.88 g
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Other reference: ACYBM 4864
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
4 Figure: SU6341
Four figure Latitude: 51.16478633
Four figure longitude: -1.10037851
1:25K map: SU6341
1:10K map: SU64SW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Hattatt, R. | 2000 | A Visual Catalogue of Richard Hattatt's Ancient Brooches | Oxford | Oxbow Books | 239 |