The Wasperton treasure

Anglo-Saxon

Warwickshire Museum – Market Hall

475 - 600

Collection of sixty-six brooches of ten different types. Includes a belt buckle, a shield boss and 66 womens' brooches of ten different types -saucer, applied, square-headed,cruciform, small-long, disc, bow-tie and pendant - all made of bronze.

• Medium: bronze
• Art Fund Grant: £9500 ( Total: £37,814)
• ArtFunded in: 1990
• Vendor: Trustees of the Lucy Price Foundation

Provenance

Excavated at Wasperton, 1981-4; Lucy Prior Foundation of Baginton.

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