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Anglo-Saxon brooch, ca.9th century, from the Pentney Hoard, in the Trewhiddle style. Trewhiddle refers to late Anglo-Saxon art that flourished during the ninth century and is named after the Trewhiddle Hoard from Cornwall, England. The style is characterized by its distinctive decoration with interlaced, contorted beasts and leafy scrolls; and in metalwork, by the preference for silver rather than bronze
2.
The Fuller Brooch. 9thC(late) Late Anglo-Saxon. Materials silver and niello. Circular brooch of hammered sheet-metal, slightly convex in section. It is extensively inlaid with niello and has an open-work outer zone encircling a central roundel which is framed and divided by broad milled borders.
3.
The Pitney Brooch, ca. 1000, which represents a fusion of Viking and Anglo-Saxon styles.
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Silver brooch of Ædwen, circa 1000. This was part of a treasure plowed up in a field in 1694, then lost, then recognized in a private collection that was given to the British Museum in 1951. The name comes from the inscription on the back, which can be translated:
"Ædwen owns me, may the Lord own her. May the Lord curse him who takes me from her, unless she gives me of her own free will".
"Ædwen owns me, may the Lord own her. May the Lord curse him who takes me from her, unless she gives me of her own free will".
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