Recent Find

[golfnut]

I was doing a farm in southern england and pulled this just before wrapping up.




It is a stylised Raven, sheild mount, saxon, it is chip carved and guilded. Rare and interesting. It is only half as broken and plough bent. S

[6666]

Nice

[joop]

On the main land we would call this a bird brooch from the merovingian period, around 500 AD. Very nice!

There are a couple on this page, bottom right corner.

[gef12]

very nice mate ..good one

[golfnut]

Thx joop they do look similar.

I was told Saxon mount, it has pins on the reverse, which cant support a pin, not like a real brooch. The pins are about 5.5mm long so too long to go into horse harness leather or a coat.


I found another, chip carved raven online and it was a saxon sheild mount. This is the only one i found - and similar to mine.

The jury is out! its AD500 Merovingian or AD 600 Anglo Saxon

This was the one i saw,,,



This is my one washed and in microcrystaline wax.



The site has produced two first century brooches, one like a la tene and another was said to be a centurians brooch. A second century vanilla roman brooch.

50 roman coins, most from 323 to 380 a couple of deeper ones from 270 ( a ClaudiusII) antoninianus. I was looking at the detail on that one and some of the features in the coin, so were carved in the Die/Punch are 300um spacing.!!!! These moneyers/mints must have have magnifiers, crude microscopes back then...?

[joop]

Yes, I know... In England they call this Anglo Saxon. Although very different cultures, it is suprising how similar the metalwork was.

I know for sure that the romans have used children to produce detailed artwork. Their eyesight is much better...