Image: Anglo-Saxon brooch (FindID 572654)
Description: An Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy safety-pin type brooch. The brooch is made from a single piece of wire, pointed at one end, bent into a springy loop in the centre, and then bent up to form a hooked catchplate at the other end. This type of brooch is sometimes wrongly attributed to the Iron Age; a very similar example was however found unstratified at Whitby (Peers and Ralegh Radford 1943, fig. 12, no. 4) and they are more likely to belong to the middle Anglo-Saxon period, perhaps 8th century.
Title: Anglo-Saxon brooch
Credit: https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/436177 Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/436177/recordtype/artefacts archive copy Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/572654
Author: Lincolnshire County Council, Adam Daubney, 2013-08-12 14:24:57
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