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An Early Alamannic Brooch from Yorkshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

M. J. Swanton
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In a recent account of the sixth-century Anglian cemetery at Londesborough in the Yorkshire Wolds, one curious piece of bronze from a female's grave was inadequately described merely as ‘perhaps an unusual type of buckle’. Too late for publication in that report a small group of parallel objects came to my notice, the existence of which has since been corroborated by Dr. Roes's recognition of a complete class of early continental quoit brooches, of which this group forms one variant. In fact, the fragmentary Londesborough piece (fig. i (4)) appears to be identical with an uncommon early Alamannic or Marcomannic group of thistle-shaped annular brooches.

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 47 , Issue 1 , March 1967 , pp. 43 - 50
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1967

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page 50 note 1 Schmidt, Taf.15 d

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page 50 note 3 Schmidt, Taf. 14 d; 15 b.