£100
Anglo-Saxon disc brooch. Circa 6th century AD. Copper-alloy, 12.48g. 41.67 mm. Avent's (1975) Class 2.1. A fragmented example, decorated with three evenly spaced keystone garnets (only one survives) surrounding a central roundel. The remaining keystone garnet has a hatched gold foil backing. The fields between the garnets abutting the roundel are decorated with the identical gilded pattern. Ref: Several examples with a similar decorative style (of a central circle and three wedge-shaped projections) are illustrated in Macgregor & Bolick (1993:70-73) although the majority are silver gilt.
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