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Record ID: PAS-795917
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An Anglo-Saxon brooch, made from a silver penny, to which a hinged pin and catch plate have been rivetted. The pin and catch plate are attached to the obverse, with two rivets each, with the effect that the reverse design of a cross is displayed as the front of the brooch. This side of the coin has been heavily gilded for added effect. The coin is a silver penny of the Expanding Cross type of Edward the Confessor; issued by the moneyer Brand of Winchester. This type dates from the early 1050s although the precise dating is controversial.
Published in Williams (2001, 62; no. 5)
Created on: Thursday 21st April 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 8th December 2021
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Record ID: PAS-D30EA3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
The fragment forms part of the foot-plate of an Anglo-Saxon miniature square-headed brooch. The terminal is broken off and the opposite end rises slightly to an old break across the end of the bow of the brooch. On the back is the projecting stub of a pin-catch. In the centre of the plate is a plain, flat lozenge enclosed by a narrow rib, and the whole is bordered by a raised flat frame decorated with small nielloed triangles; there is a plain lobe at either side. In the angle between each of these lobes and the end of the bow is a stylised animal motif in Salin's Style I consisting of…
Created on: Thursday 10th July 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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This findspot is known as 'Breamore', grid reference and parish protected.
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