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Three brooches, four-point, three-point, cruciform

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Brooches with cruciform (cross-shaped) symbol

Three brooches

These brooches reflect contacts between Scandinavia and neighboring lands. The cruciform (cross-shaped) brooch is Scandinavian in form, but similar types were also worn by women in Anglo-Saxon England and nothern Germany. The radiate-headed (knobbed) brooch and smaller bow (arched) brooch are decoraed with abstract animal motifs and chip-carved scrolls deriving from Late Roman art.

AD 400s-500s. 1910,0507.1 1921,1101.41 and 217

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Brooches with cruciform (cross-shaped) symbol
Taken on  Monday 17th of August 2015
Device: OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP.
Model: SP800UZ
Genre:  400 - 500 A.D.
Source:  London, United Kingdom
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