Drawings of Anglo-Saxons

ANGLO-SAXON DISCOVERY

Drawings of objects

Disc Brooches

Disc brooch from Abingdon (AN1836-68p14)
These were the simplist of the circular type of brooch. They were made from a disc of metal, usually bronze, and were again usually worn in pairs.

Disc brooches were often decorated with circles and dots, or small triangles.

This type of brooch was popular in Anglo-Saxon Oxfordshire and the South of England in the fifth and sixth centuries.

Drawing of disc brooch
Jewelled disc brooch (AN1934.202)

In Kent a different style of disc brooch developed, which was decorated with garnets, glass and gold. This particular brooch (AN1934.202) was found at Sarre in Kent and dates from the 6th/7th centuries.

Click here to see a drawing by ET Leeds of a brooch like this from Faversham in Kent.

See more examples of disc and garnet booches in the virtual gallery (case 2 and case 1)

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