Accession No
1944.6 B
Description
Copper alloy disc brooch with guilding; circular central setting with a foil backed garnet surrounded by a meerschaum setting. Two trapezoidal garnets without foil backing. Outer edge is decorated with ridges and possible geometric patterns; large parts of the brooch surrounding the central setting have come away and are missing. Pin bar lug obscured by a small amount of corroded iron pin; catchpiece is largely intact and also shows evidence of the corroded iron pin.
Place
Europe; ?British Isles; ?England; ?Kent
Period
Anglo Saxon
Source
Clarke, Louis Colville Gray [donor]; Grantley (Lord) [collector]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1944.6 B
Cultural Affliation
Material
Metal; Gold; Silver; Copper alloy; ?Bronze; Garnet; Meerschaum
Local Term
Measurements
38mm x 2mm x 34mm Weight 0.00728kg
Events
Context (References)
Greiff, S., Hilgner, A. and Quast, D. (eds). Simply Gold, Simply Red: Results of an International Project on Early Medieval Garnet Jewellery. Mainz: RGZM (in press)
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Context (References)
Hilgner, Alexandra. Garnet in Early Medieval England: The meaning, provenance and distribution of garnet decorated objects from the late 5th to the early 8th century. Mainz. (PhD thesis in prep.)
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn
Context (Auction / Sale)
Collected by: Lord Grantley Collection. Purchased by Clarke in the Grantley Sale.
Event Date 1944
Author: Imogen Gunn
Context (References)
Avent, Richard. (1975). Anglo-Saxon Garnet Inlaid Disc and Composite Brooches. Part II: Catalogue and Plates. BAR: Oxford. No. 70, Pl. 14.70. p. 19.
Event Date 1975
Author: Imogen Gunn
Context (Analysis)
This object travelled to Romisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum (RGZM), Mainz, Germany in March 2014 as part of a project to analyse the garnets using micro-X-Ray-Fluorescence to determine their source. See loan file for more details.
Event Date 3/2014
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Description (CMS Description)
Avent (see Bib), states this brooch is silver gilt.
Event Date 22/11/2016
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson
Description (CMS Description)
Disc brooch, ill-preserved. Bronze gilt; formerly decorated as above but with four wedge-shaped garnets; two of these and the central disc with its 'meerschaum' setting still remain.
Event Date 18/5/2016
Author: Imogen Gunn
Description (Physical description)
Copper alloy disc brooch with guilding; circular central setting with a foil backed garnet surrounded by a meerschaum setting. Two trapezoidal garnets without foil backing. Outer edge is decorated with ridges and possible geometric patterns; large parts of the brooch surrounding the central setting have come away and are missing. Pin bar lug obscured by a small amount of corroded iron pin; catchpiece is largely intact and also shows evidence of the corroded iron pin.
Event Date 14/5/2021
Author: Sam Daisley
FM:269377
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