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Record ID: KENT2669
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Central part of an Anglo-Saxon composite or plated disc brooch. Outer and internal divisions, made of gold. Internal garnet inlays. TAR 2000, no. 86 says 'red-coloured glass or garnet'.
Created on: Tuesday 30th January 2001
Last updated: Monday 4th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENT FOLKESTONE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-A76701
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Setting from an Anglo-Saxon composite disc brooch. The setting appears to consist of a dome of white material, with a band of gold ropework running around its diameter. Four strips of gold ropework run from this band up towards the centre of the dome, which has a circular setting of similar ropework, which may have formed a setting for a gem stone (now missing). This object has been identified from a photograph only, but clearly represents a central setting of Avent's Class 4 (Avent 1975). Similar central settings occur on composite disc brooches from Milton, Monkton, Sarre and Favers…
Created on: Friday 28th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 18th October 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: KENT4546
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of gold sheet with garnet and opaque blue glass in cloisonné cellwork, part of an applied central setting from a silver plated disc brooch. Description: The sheet consists of almost half of its original circular shape. It has a rim of beaded wire, and carries two registers of cloisonné cellwork. The outer register has the remains of two circular cells, now empty of their settings and filled with mud. These are separated from a triangular setting of four cells by open fields containing well-organised C-scrolls in fine beaded-wire filigree. The layout of the triangular settin…
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 18th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Sandwich', grid reference and parish protected.