File:Middle Anglo-Saxon disc brooch, or 'cogwheel' brooch (FindID 752471).jpg

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Middle Anglo-Saxon disc brooch, or 'cogwheel' brooch
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Suffolk County Council, Andrew Brown, 2016-04-29 15:08:36
Title
Middle Anglo-Saxon disc brooch, or 'cogwheel' brooch
Description
English: An incomplete copper-alloy cogwheel brooch of Early-Medieval date, missing its pin, outer edge of the pin lug and catchplate due to old breaks. The brooch has a flat circular plate with openwork and moulded decoration. This comprises a central cross-shaped motif with central lozenge shaped panel and sub-rectangular perforations in each quadrant. At the centre the lozenge has a slightly domed front face, and the sides of each arm of the cross have moulded ridges that terminate at the outer edge of the plate in raised pellets. The outer edge of the plate has a moulded border with central groove, the exterior edge having a series of rectangular crenellations around its circumference. These number eighteen in total. On the back face of the plate is an incomplete but integrally cast pin lug, missing its outer edge and any corresponding catchplate due to old breaks. The centre of the back face is slightly concave. This brooch measures 28.99mm in diameter, 2.93mm in thickness and 4.98g in weight.

This is a Middle Anglo-Saxon disc brooch, or 'cogwheel' brooch. It finds parallels in published examples (Hinton, 1974: no. 14) as well as in examples recorded through the PAS database (e.g. SF-497CD2, NMS-BBA6F6). These suggest a date range for the current example in the 9th century AD.

Depicted place (County of findspot) Suffolk
Date between 800 and 900
Accession number
FindID: 752471
Old ref: SF-C8524B
Filename: FXL_SFC8524B.jpg
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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/565166
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/565166/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/752471
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