disc brooch

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Object Type
Museum number: 2005,0106.1
Description: Fragment of silver, parcel-gilt disc brooch, with separate dome-headed rivet. On the main fragment there is one complete parcel-gilt lentoid field, half a second and the border of a third, flanking a panel with silver decoration emerging from an incised background filled with niello. The lentoid fields have a notched inner border and are decorated with three triangular leaves developing from a tendril to fill the shape. The main field of the brooch is decorated with acanthus-like leaves flanking a bud from which emerges a trefoil shape.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 9thC(late)-10thC(early)
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Aldborough (Norfolk)
Materials: silver; gold
Technique: parcel-gilded; incised
Dimensions: Diameter: 0.80 millimetres (rivet); Length: 34 millimetres (brooch); Weight: 4.70 grammes (total); Thickness: 1 millimetres; Width: 21 millimetres
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 2005
Acquisition notes: metal detector find in 2002.
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 2005,0106.1
Additional IDs: Treasure/PAS number: 2002T31 (Treasure number); Treasure/PAS number: PAS-D49861 (PAS Database Number)
Conservation

Free entry