AN ANGLO-SAXON GILDED SILVER DISC BROOCH, the raised border with niello zig-zag pattern, the gilded centre set with a disc of meerschaum surrounded by three 'keystone' garnets and chip-carved linear designs, pin missing, late 6th Century A.D.
Details
AN ANGLO-SAXON GILDED SILVER DISC BROOCH, the raised border with niello zig-zag pattern, the gilded centre set with a disc of meerschaum surrounded by three 'keystone' garnets and chip-carved linear designs, pin missing, late 6th Century A.D.
1 1/8in. (2.7cm.) diam.
Provenance
Found in Kent, 1980
Lot Essay
Cf. R. Hattatt, Ancient and Romano-British Brooches, Sherborne, 1982, pp. 174-175, fig. 73, nos. 176-177