Late 5th-7th century AD. A silver-gilt plate brooch formed as a rectangular headplate and trapezoidal footplate, applied panels with punched detailing and hollow-formed lateral knops, ropework borders and applied bows with granules; coil of a sprung pin to the reverse and edge of the catchplate; pin separate; provincial workmanship. See Heynowski, R. Bestimmungsbuch Archaeologie: Fibeln, Munich, 2012 for discussion. 113 grams, 14.5cm (5 3/4"). Property of a European gentleman; formerly in a German private collection formed in the 1950-1970s. [No Reserve] Fair condition.