Object number
1996.95.10.2
Description
Copper alloy, gilt, saucer brooch. front with central mount with greenish yellow glass setting and ring. Divided by single radial bars into three fields of almost equal size. Each contains a Salin style I animal surrounded by an outer ring. On back pin holder and catch-plate cast in one with brooch, part of spring mechanism attached and fragmentary iron pin. Traces of leather attached to back of brooch.. Found above left shoulder of Burial 5, an adult female, at an Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Lower Farm, Bishop's Cleeve, Gloucestershire. Excavated by Kenneth Brown of Cheltenham Museum in July 1969.
Date
525 - 600
Production period
6th century
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