Brooch

Description

A bronze brooch, it is cruciform in shape and the pin is missing. South-east England, Anglo-Saxon.

Object data

Accession number

HCA 569

Date made

6th or 7th century AD

Materials

Metal; Copper Alloy; Bronze

Collection

Dimensions (cm)

Provenance

File of material relating to a bronze brooch. Includes photocopy of object description sheet which includes sketch (date unspecified); photocopy of photograph of object (date unspecified); photocopy of Hunt Museum object comment sheet (10 July 1996) which contains comments by Doctor Campbell, Royal Archaeological Institute. Dates the brooch to between 550-650 A.D. and states it comes from south-east England or Yorkshire.

Place of collection

Culture

Copyright Attribution

Brooch | Metal,Copper Alloy,Bronze | 6th or 7th century AD | The Hunt Collection | PD

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