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Anglian Bronze Annular Brooch

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Circa 5th-6th century AD An annular brooch formed with a flat plate and rectangular piercing for the D-section pin, the plate decorated with a row of horseshoe-shaped stamped motifs to the inner and outer borders; the silvering complete on the pin and upper surface, absent from the underside. See MacGregor, A. & Bolick, E. A Summary Catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon Collections (Non-Ferrous Metals"), Oxford, 1993 item 10.12. Silvered copper-alloy, 12.70 grams, 49 mm (2") From an important Scottish collection; found Catterick, Yorkshire, UK. The brooch was recovered from the Catterick area (Yorkshire") which is usually identified as the site of the late 6th or early 7th century battle of Catraeth immortalized in the Old Welsh poem Y Gododdin in which a troop of three hundred horsemen from the fortress of Din Eidyn attacked an unnamed but overwhelming enemy force and was wiped out. The case has been made for the British horsemen having set off from the area of modern Edinburgh to attack an Anglian (English") stronghold, although the poem does not mention either the location of the battle or the name of the enemy. [No Reserve]

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