7th-8th century A.D. A bronze box brooch, discoid in plan with slightly tapering sidewall; the upper face with reserved cross on a pounced field, four slightly raised lugs to the rim and central boss; the sidewall with pounced panels; hollow to the reverse with catchplate and pin-lugs. Cf. box brooches in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, in MacGregor, A. et al., A Summary Catalogue of the Continental Archaeological Collections, Oxford, 1997, item 1.2; Arwidsson, G. Valsgärde 7, Uppsala, 1977. 47.9 grams, 47 mm wide (1 7/8 in."). Collection formed in the 2000s. Property of an English gentleman. [No Reserve]

Fair condition; hole to upper face and small break to sidewall.