Code: 12921
This is an Anglo-Saxon bronze and enamelled disc brooch, dating to circa 1000 - 1100 AD. It is of a Weetch Type 20 similar to that recorded as SWYOR-140A37. Other recorded examples are to found ESS-ACE5BE, and WMID-F015BA. This brooch is classed as Weetch Type 20.A; a Saunderton type, comprising a cloisonne enamelled disc brooch with circumferential lobes; Weetch (2014) p.110. The majority have six or seven lobes with blue being by far the most common colour for the glass beads. These brooches date from the late 10th century into the 12th century.
OBJECT: Brooch
CULTURE: Anglo-Saxon
DATE: c. 975 - 1100 AD
MATERIAL: Bronze & glass enamel
SIZE: 25mm x 4mm
WEIGHT: 4.25 grams
PROVENANCE: Formerly in a private collection, Grays, Essex.
