Regional fashions, saucer brooches, square-headed brooch
European Museums, The British MuseumRegional fashions, pairs of saucer brooches worn with a central square-headed brooch.
Regional fashions
Women's jewelry varied amongst different groups of Anglo-Saxons. Pairs of saucer brooches worn with a central square-headed brooch were popular in central and southern England, while in Kent, women preferred disc brooches, small square-headed brooches and other items like crystal balls. In eastern England there was a taste for wrist clasps and cruciform brooches with cross-shaped heads.
A.D. 400s-650s. East Shefford, Berkshire, 1893,0716.41-42. Great Chesterford, Essex, donated by Mrs. Doris E. King in memory of Mr. Geoffrey W. King, 1964,0702.579. Lakenheath, Suffolk, 1910,1222.3. Kenninghall, Norfolk, donated by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks, 1883,0702.19. Cambridgeshire, donated by Sir Charles Hercules Read, 1900,1110.1. Faversham, Kent, bequeathed by William Gibbs, .1041.'70. Buckland, Kent, donated by Orbit Housing Association, 1995, 0102.669-670 and 672
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Regional fashions, pairs of saucer brooches worn with a central square-headed brooch
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