oval brooch
- Museum number
- 1900,0518.2
- Description
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Copper alloy oval brooch, cast: small, hollow, domed and incised in form of an animal seen from above, its front and back legs interlaced across the top, and with three panels of interlace to back of centre.
- Production date
- 7thC(late)-8thC(early)
- Dimensions
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Length: 5.10 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Comment from Kidd, Haith & Ager 'Summary Catalogue' (draft MS)
Provenance/published (the group):
As registration no. 1900,0518.1
Published (the object):
READ C.H. 1899. Proceedings at Meetings, 16th March 1899, Proc Soc Ant 2nd series XVII for November 1897 to June 1899, London, p. 372 fig.
SMITH R.A. 1906. Notes on the Discovery at Ballyholme Proc Soc Ant 2nd series XXI Nov 1905 to June 1907, London, pp. 75 6
ARWIDSSON G. 1942. Vendelstile, Email und Glas, im 7.-8. Jahrhundert, Acta Musei Antiquitatum Septentrionalium Regiae Universitatis Upsaliensis II, Valsgärdestudien I. Stockholm, pp. 44, 116 no. 92
VINSRYGG S. 1979. Merovingartid i Nord-Noreg, Arkeologiske Avhandlinger fra Historisk Museum Universitetet i Bergen, no. 2. Bergen, p. 34 no. 4, fig. 7, p. 35, fig. 10e, table VIII
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
Exhibited:
1977 London, BM, Animals in Art
- Acquisition date
- 1900
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1900,0518.2
