Sep 7, 2018 · The PAS database has several fragments of early Anglo-Saxon brooches made from lead. They are normally small, due to the softness and fragility of lead. They are thought to be models, used in the process of casting a copper …

Brooches were known as dalc or spennels to the Anglo-Saxons. They were mainly worn by women, especially between AD450-650. Women wore brooches in pairs in order to fasten their dresses, whereas single brooches were probably used to fasten cloaks.

Anglo-Saxon brooches are a large group of decorative brooches found in England from the fifth to the eleventh centuries. In the early Anglo-Saxon era, there were two main categories of brooch: the long (bow) brooch and the circular (disc) brooch.

Aug 31, 2021 · In our collection we have over 70 Anglo Saxon brooches, coming from three main sites: Graves at Glaston excavated in a sand-pit in 1950 by Barber. They have stood the test of time with varying degrees of success. We have many broken brooches. The iron fastenings have often succumbed to corrosion.

The Fuller Brooch is an Anglo-Saxon silver and niello brooch dated to the late 9th century, which is now in the British Museum, where it is normally on display in Room 41. [1] The elegance of the engraved decoration depicting the Five Senses, highlighted by being filled with niello, makes it one of the most highly regarded pieces of Anglo-Saxon ...

Mar 21, 2017 · A lead disc or nummular brooch of late Anglo-Saxon date. It is missing its iron pin due to old reaks but it is otherwise intact. The brooch is flat, disc shaped in form and with moulded (Pelletted Cross) decoration on the front face.

Anglo-Saxon circular lead brooch, with openwork cross in middle, and sunken rectangules and groups of three pellets around, all within a ladder-pattern border. Lowered border around edge, now mainly missing but where present decorated with raised ribs ending in pellets.

Oct 5, 2023 · A rare early Medieval brooch has been restored and put on display at the Museum of Somerset in Taunton. Discovered by a metal detectorist on farmland near Cheddar in October 2020, the disc brooch is the first of its kind ever found in southwestern England.

This particular brooch (AN1934.202) was found at Sarre in Kent and dates from the 6th/7th centuries. Click here to see a drawing by ET Leeds of a brooch like this from Faversham in Kent. See more examples of disc and garnet booches in the virtual gallery ( case 2 and case 1 )

The most interesting of these were a beautiful medieval lead seal matrix, medieval lead Boy Bishop token pierced for use as a pendant, post medieval thimble with unusual stamped decoration and a...