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Monument details

Summary

An Anglo Saxon saucer brooch from Dover is now in the British Museum. It is of a type poorly represented in Kent, but common in the upper Thames Valley and it was passed into the British Museum from the collection of Dr. Lysons (who was a collector at the British Museum between 1763 and 1819) and is said to have been from Dover. (location accurate to the nearest 1km based on available information)

Monument Types

• FINDSPOT (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 410 AD? to 1065 AD?)

Associated Finds

• DISC BROOCH (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 500 AD to 599 AD)

Full description

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An Anglo Saxon saucer brooch from Dover is now in the British Museum. (1) 'A rude saucer brooch of a type poorly represented in Kent, but common in the upper Thames Valley, passed into the British Museum from the collection of Dr. Lysons (who was a collector at the British Museum between 1763 and 1819) and is said to have been from Dover' (2) The description of the brooch in the British Museums online collection reads; 'Gilt copper alloy saucer brooch; plain rim; raised milled border around field of seven chip carved spirals; central stud riveted on, dished with cross incised in circle in the middle; bent.' (3)

No further information about the circumstances or location of this discovery is available.

<1> E. Thurlow Leeds, 1912, Archaeologia: or miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity: The Distribution of the Anglo-Saxon Saucer Brooch in relation to the Battle of Bedford, A. D. 571 Vol 63, Arch 63 (1912) pp.198 (ET Leeds) (Article in serial). SKE32454.

<2> Page, W. (ed), 1908, The Victoria History of the Counties of England: Kent Volumne I, VCH Kent 1 1908 363-364 (IC Gould) (Monograph). SKE7882.

<3> The British Museum, British Museum online collection (Website). SKE32302.

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