FRANKISH S-SHAPED PLATE BROOCH 6th century AD A flat-section bronze plate brooch formed as a pair of conjoined bird-heads on a common neck; each head a drum-shaped panel with central incised point and concentric border, waisted head with curved beak; the neck and body with alternating ring-and-dot motifs and panels with a chip-carved concentric spiral; catchplate, pin-lugs and part of spring to the reverse. 7.28 grams, 28mm (1"). Very fine condition. Provenance Property of a German collector; acquired in the 1980s and 1990s. Literature Cf. MacGregor, A. et al. A Summary Catalogue of the Continental Archaeological Collections, Oxford, 1997, item 69.4. Footnotes S-brooches were one of the primary forms of decoration worn during the sixth century. They are found in Langobardic graves in the middle Danube, Pannonia and northern Italy. By the second half of the sixth century they had become one of the most common type of brooches across Europe with variants worn in the Rhineland, northwestern France, Scandinavia and Anglo-Saxon England. The creatures on the majority of these brooches are conceived as having bird heads, but some have elongated jaws that are drawn from a northern Germanic repertoire of forms that are believed to be dragons.
FRANKISH S-SHAPED PLATE BROOCH 6th century AD A flat-section bronze plate brooch formed as a pair of conjoined bird-heads on a common neck; each head a drum-shaped panel with central incised point and concentric border, waisted head with curved beak; the neck and body with alternating ring-and-dot motifs and panels with a chip-carved concentric spiral; catchplate, pin-lugs and part of spring to the reverse. 7.28 grams, 28mm (1"). Very fine condition. Provenance Property of a German collector; acquired in the 1980s and 1990s. Literature Cf. MacGregor, A. et al. A Summary Catalogue of the Continental Archaeological Collections, Oxford, 1997, item 69.4. Footnotes S-brooches were one of the primary forms of decoration worn during the sixth century. They are found in Langobardic graves in the middle Danube, Pannonia and northern Italy. By the second half of the sixth century they had become one of the most common type of brooches across Europe with variants worn in the Rhineland, northwestern France, Scandinavia and Anglo-Saxon England. The creatures on the majority of these brooches are conceived as having bird heads, but some have elongated jaws that are drawn from a northern Germanic repertoire of forms that are believed to be dragons.
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