Anglo Saxon Decorated Brooch

They were difficult to make and were often had lots of decoration on them and so they were worn only by the wealthiest anglo saxon women.

Anglo saxon decorated brooch. The intricate designs of anglo saxon brooches buckles and other pieces of decorative metalwork are not just pretty decoration they have multi layered symbolic meanings and tell stories. The kingston brooch is the largest known anglo saxon composite brooch and is considered by scholars to be an outstanding example of the composite disc brooch style. In the early anglo saxon era there were two main categories of brooch. The pentney hoard is an anglo saxon jewellery hoard discovered by a gravedigger in a pentney norfolk churchyard in 1978.

The treasure consists of six silver openwork disc brooches five made entirely of silver and one composed of silver and copper alloy. The quoit brooch is a type of anglo saxon brooch found from the 5th century and later during the anglo saxon settlement of britain that has given its name to the quoit brooch style to embrace all types of anglo saxon metalwork in the decorative style typical of the finest brooches. Anglo saxon brooches are a large group of decorative brooches found in england from the fifth to the eleventh centuries. Curator rosie weetch and illustrator craig williams team up to decode some key anglo saxon objects.

This brooch has nine red gemstones called garnets on it. This is a square headed brooch which means it has a square piece at the top. The long brooches went out of fashion by the end of the sixth century. The hoard is now in the british museum.

The long brooch category includes cruciform square headed radiate headed and small long brooch brooches. The brooch created in the seventh century is now in the world museum liverpool in liverpool england.