disc brooch
- Museum number
- 1894,0421.1
- Description
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Gilt silver cloisonné disc brooch: garnet inlaid border, a triangle at each quadrant with pairs of rectangles in between; central repoussé decorated silver sheet disc with 4 interlaced arcs (Style I?); beaded wire border.
- Production date
- 6thC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 2.60 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Comment from Kidd, Haith & Ager ‘Summary Catalogue’ (draft MS)
Published:
SMITH R.A. 1923. A Guide to the Anglo-Saxon and Foreign Teutonic Antiquities in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities. London, pl. XV:1
VON JENNY W.A. and VOLBACH W.F. 1933. Germanischer Schmuck des frühen Mittelalters. Berlin, p. 43, pl. 25:2
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1894
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1894,0421.1
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 269 (Zschille collection no.)