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Summary
Anglo-Saxon brooch
Photographer
Lincolnshire County Council, Adam Daubney, 2013-08-12 14:24:57
Title
Anglo-Saxon brooch
Description
English: 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.
Depicted place
(County of findspot) Lincolnshire
Date
between 700 and 800
Accession number
FindID: 572654 Old ref: LIN-8E1E04 Filename: LIN2013-1254B.jpg
Credit line
The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source
https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/436177 Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/436177/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/572654
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