Anglo-Saxon brooches
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Anglo-Saxon brooches are a large group of decorative brooches found in England from the fifth to the eleventh centuries. In the early Anglo-Saxon era, there were two main categories of brooch: the lon
Great square-headed brooch, 6th century
Strickland Brooch, 9th century
Radiate-headed brooch, early 7th century
Iron-age bow brooch
Ædwen's brooch
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Ædwen's brooch is an early 11th-century Anglo-Scandinavian silver disc brooch with an inscription on the reverse side. It was discovered in 1694 during the ploughing of a field in Sutton, Isle of Ely,
Anglo-Saxon brooches
…other regions, started creating brooches using their own distinctive styles and techniques. The best-known examples of Anglo-Saxon brooches are the Sutton brooch, the Sarre brooch, the Fuller Brooch, the Strickland Brooch, and the Kingston Brooch. The middle of the fifth century marked the beginning of Anglo-Saxon…
Drawing of the inscription (George Hickes, Thesaurus of Ancient Languages of the North, 1705)
Ædwen's brooch
Aedwen's brooch