Jewelled brooch

Anglo-Saxon

Ashmolean Museum

7th Century

Brooch composed of a framework of bronze cells enclosing bosses of shell with garnet eyes, & panels of gold filigree & garnets on gold foil backing with blue glass insertions. All are mounted together on a silver backplate & bound with a gold rim.

• Medium: bronze, silver, gold, garnet
• Dimensions: 6 cm
• Art Fund Grant: £2000 ( Total: £4,000)
• ArtFunded in: 1972
• Vendor: M R Baxter

Provenance

Found in a woman's grave at Monkton on the Isle of Thanet during the course of drainage works; M.R.Baxter.

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