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Lot Essay
PUBLISHED:
C. Roach-Smith, Collectanea Antiqua, vol. III, London, 1854, pt. 6, pp. 167-168, pl. XLII.
E. Thurlow Leeds, A Corpus of Early Anglo-Saxon Great Square-headed Brooches, Oxford, 1949, pp. 79 (n.3), 81, 86 (n.2), pl. 136, where he notes that the whereabouts of the Wigston Magna brooch were unknown.
The production of square-headed brooches in England was heavily influenced by continental models probably imported from the Rhineland towards the end of the 5th Century. Anglo-Saxon jewellers adopted this design and added distinctive local traits, such as larger flat surfaces which could be decorated with masks and animal motifs.
For a concise study of Anglo-Saxon brooches, cf. R. Jessup, Anglo-Saxon Jewellery, Aylesbury, 1974 , pp. 38-39.
C. Roach-Smith, Collectanea Antiqua, vol. III, London, 1854, pt. 6, pp. 167-168, pl. XLII.
E. Thurlow Leeds, A Corpus of Early Anglo-Saxon Great Square-headed Brooches, Oxford, 1949, pp. 79 (n.3), 81, 86 (n.2), pl. 136, where he notes that the whereabouts of the Wigston Magna brooch were unknown.
The production of square-headed brooches in England was heavily influenced by continental models probably imported from the Rhineland towards the end of the 5th Century. Anglo-Saxon jewellers adopted this design and added distinctive local traits, such as larger flat surfaces which could be decorated with masks and animal motifs.
For a concise study of Anglo-Saxon brooches, cf. R. Jessup, Anglo-Saxon Jewellery, Aylesbury, 1974 , pp. 38-39.