radiate-headed brooch
- Museum number
- 1905,0520.213-214
- Description
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Copper alloy radiate-headed brooches pair: cast and notched vertical linear decoration on semi-circular head-plate which has five profiled knobs each with a ring-and-dot; spatulate foot-plate with notched linear and billeted borders flanking plain median strip with a ring-and-dot at the end.
- Production date
- 6thC
- Dimensions
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Length: 7.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Comment from Kidd, Haith & Ager ‘Summary Catalogue’ (draft MS)
Provenance:
Herpes, comm. Courbillac, c. Rouillac, arr. Angoulême, dép. Charente, France (based upon an original photograph in private possession)
Published:
KÜHN H. 1940. Die germanischen Bügelfibeln der Völkerwanderungszeit in der Rheinprovinz, 2 vols. Bonn (reprinted 1965), p. 215 nos. 38 and 39, pl. 88:22,38 and 39
LEEDS E.T. 1957. Notes on Jutish Art in Kent between 450 and 575, Medieval Archaeology I for 1957, London, p. 22 note 66
MAURIN L. 1968. La cité de Saintes de la paix romaine à la paix franque - enquête archéologique, unpublished thesis at L'Institut d'Art et d'Archéologie. Paris, cat. nos. 124 and 125
KÜHN H. 1974. Die germanischen Bügelfibeln der Völkerwanderungszeit in Süddeutschland, 2 vols, Graz, vol. 2, p. 923 no. 55, pl. 282:22,55
MAURIN L. 1978. Saintes antique des origines à la fin du VI siècle après Jésus Christ. Saintes, p. 362 note 127
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1905
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1905,0520.213-214