1996.95.10.1

Copper alloy, gilt, saucer brooch. front with central mount with 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. Leather and textile fragments also present on back. Found below lower jaw 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.

525 - 600

6th century

copper alloy, gold

cast, plated