Brooches - English Styles

Brooches - English Styles

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Disk brooches [E]

British brooches tend to be about 4cm (1½”) (EWING 2007, p.61)

The use of precious metals to make disc brooches in England reduces during the C10th. Hoards from the late 9th and early 10th contain many more brooches made from precious metals than those from the late 10th and 11th (HINTON 2005, p.167)

With a couple of exceptions English brooches tend to be flat.

Riveted

Staffs, Manifold Valley, c.873-75, 4.9cm (WILSON 1964, p.120 cat.2)

Large Silver Riveted

Strickland brooch
Fuller brooch
(HINTON 2005, p.112-113)

Backward beast

Anglo-Danish C9th / C10th
3.3cm (WILSON 1964, p.122 cat.8)

Coin brooches

Canterbury, silver soldered beaded wires around a coin like disk (HINTON 2005, p.144)

Coin like brooches

Cheap side, London, lead alloy (HINTON 2005, p.157)
York

Cheap side

Cheap side, London, lead alloy (HINTON 2005, p.157)