The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Frank Basford, 2016-06-12 21:06:36
Title
Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) Bird or Duck Brooch
Description
English: An incomplete Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) copper-alloy bird or duck brooch (c. 450-c. 600).
The tail-end of the bird, pin and pin-lug(s) are missing.
The brooch is irregular in plan and the bird is in the sitting or resting position with wings folded. It has a body containing shallow linear depressions. The head is characteristic of Early-Medieval bird brooches and the eye is lobed at the top and formed by a ring-and-dot motif to create cells. The beak is curved and pointing downwards. A leg is situated beneath the body. The rear face is flat and has a 'D'-shaped catch-plate which is relatively large. It measures 9.6mm in length, 6.1mm in width and 1.7mm in thickness.
This brooch has a matt greenish blue patina with off-white deposits at the front and rear. There is no surviving decorative material within the cells and no evidence of melting or burning.
Similar brooches have been recorded on The Portable Antiquities Scheme database. See finds: BERK-9B6095; BUC-0EC715; KENT-C0D077; NMS-B913D5; SF-3100F5; SF-E28B03; SUR-791CE8 and SUSS-C234F1.
Depicted place
(County of findspot) Isle of Wight
Date
between 450 and 600
Accession number
FindID: 788030 Old ref: IOW-1F2664 Filename: IOW20162180a.jpg
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