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Ashmolean Museum inventory no. AN1934.202. 7th century. Gold, garnet and glass. Composite disc brooch, elaborately decorated with cloisonné work and inlaid with garnets and coloured glass. Beaded wire rim and gold filigree scrollwork. Discovered in…

BUTLER’S FIELD, LECHLADE
This site, excavated in 1985 by Oxford Archaeology, is one of the largest and most important Anglo-Saxon cemeteries in the Upper Thames Valley. The objects buried with the people of Butler’s Field form the core of the…

AN00270129_001_l. Gilt silver cast keystone garnet disc brooch with zigzag nielloed border, four triangular garnets, four white bosses, decayed central setting and remains of iron pin. All these images are © Trustees of the British Museum. These…

A cast copper-alloy, gilded, great square-headed brooch found while metal detecting. This item is recorded on the PAS database (BERK-EoFC63 BROOCH).

2007BM3751_jpg_l. The Milton Jewel is one of the finest examples of Anglo-Saxon brooches of the period, with a sophisticated design carried out in a combination of materials. The use of cloisons inlaid with garnet, filigree knot work decoration on…

Linda Babb writes: This replica of the Pentney brooch was chosen instead of an engagement ring when I became engaged to Jonathan Parkhouse in 1994 because of the symbolism of two entwined creatures. The brooch was marketed by the 'Past Times'…

AN00270121_001_l. Gilt copper alloy saucer brooch with chip-carved Style I animal decoration encircling a face-mask;cast. All these images are © Trustees of the British Museum. These free low-resolution images are covered also under the British…

AN00755664_001_l. Silver circular brooch of hammered sheet, slightly convex, and irregular in circumference, decorated with engraved zoomorphic and degenerate foliate ornament. The design is built upon four intersecting, double-contoured circles.…

AN00103760_001_l. Silver disc brooch with concentric zones of decoration on gold plate (secured with 4 rivets); central cabochon garnet; white paste; cloisonné garnets; glass & white paste settings & filigree; niello & silver borders. Anglo-Saxon…

AN00753247_001_l. Gilt bronze square-head brooch: oblong panel of debased Style I on head; dotted ribs divide lobed foot into 4 Style I fields; rosettes on side lobes. All these images are © Trustees of the British Museum. These free low-resolution…