© Potteries Museum and Art Gallery
Brooch
Artist: Anglo-Saxon
Location: Potteries Museum and Art Gallery
Date: 5th Century
Materials: gold
Dimensions: diameter: 1.9cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £2,125 (Total: £8,500)
Vendor: Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Review number: 5805 (2006)
Provenance:
Discovered by a metal detectorist in Lichfield District, Staffordshire, and declared Treasure in 2005.
Description:
Unique gold disc brooch featuring an animal ornament in high relief. It consists of a base-plate of circular gold sheet with a three-dimensional figures of a crouching feline, being 'bitten' by a pair of fanged-jaw animal heads. Incised decoration on the creatures is used to represent eyes, snouts, mouths and fur. Filigree gold wire is used around the necks of the animal heads and on the brooch border. It is likely to have been imported to Staffordshire from Scandinavia or Germany. Brooches of this kind formed part of female costume in the early Anglo-Saxon period.
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