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applied brooch
Object Type
applied brooch
Museum number
1970,0406.459
Description
Copper-alloy applied brooch with hammered decoration, gilded, in two fragments; also two fragments of upright copper-alloy rim, gilded on the inside; one has overlapping joint with very thin hammered down copper-alloy rivet; textile remains; also three bags of tiny fragments.
Cultures/periods
Early Anglo-Saxon
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot:
Mucking
, grave 589 cemetery II, inhumations
Materials
copper alloy
gold
Technique
hammered
applied
gilded
Dimensions
Diameter:
44 millimetres
Weight:
13.40 grammes
Bibliographic references
Hirst & Clark 2009 / Excavations at Mucking. The Anglo-Saxon cemeteries.
(Fig.42; p.77)
(Gr 589/3)
Location
Not on display
Acquisition name
Donated by:
F W Surridge
(trustees of the estate of)
Acquisition date
1970
Department
Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number
1970,0406.459