Anglo-Saxon 'Filigree' Dress Pin
Copper-alloy, 3.23 grams, 52.99 mm. 7th-9th century AD. An ornamental dress-pin surmounted by a hollow-cast spherical head decorated with applied filigree and granulated ornament in the form of circlets and knops. The pin has been deliberately bent over at the junction with the head. There are traces of silvering on the largest knop. Similar to the find from Bredfield, Suffolk. Reference: West, S. A Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Material from Suffolk, East Anglian Archaeology, Ipswich, 1998, p.127 fig.3. Very fine condition. Provenance: found Cambridgeshire, England.