6th century AD. A bronze disc brooch of composite type with applied frontal plate bearing repoussé decoration, concentric bands of horseshoes and pellets, central boss, pin-lugs, catch and remains of ferrous pin to the reverse. See Avent, R, Anglo-Saxon Disc and Composite Brooches, 2 vols, BAR II, Oxford, 1975. 28.6 grams, 52mm (2''"). From an old British private collection; acquired in the 1990s.