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Saxon pin brooch? Help please?!

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	Saxon pin brooch? Help please?! « on: May 31, 2010, 10:18:37 am »

Hi i found this about 12 years ago i have only just got back into the hobby and have dug out all my old finds. I have looked onlone and it seems to me that this could be a saxon pin brooch, Still with a bit of silver guilding on it. Am i right or am o compleatly wrong? Also would it be of any value at all? Thanks. Lee

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	Re: Saxon pin brooch? Help please?! « Reply #1 on: May 31, 2010, 11:27:13 am »

Anglo Saxon "Button Brooch" (I think)...... ?100+

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	Re: Saxon pin brooch? Help please?! « Reply #2 on: May 31, 2010, 12:51:40 pm »

Thankyou i have suspected it was a saxon brooch for a while now but am chuffed now i have had it verified

Where would be a good place to sell this kind of thing? happy hunting! Detecting

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	Re: Saxon pin brooch? Help please?! « Reply #3 on: June 01, 2010, 10:42:03 am »

Hi Lee,
Sorry to disapiont you but that object is "horse jewlery" plated and I belive made of lead.
I have the exact same one also found in the UK stand by and I will post a pix of it today some time.............HH.......Johnnn

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	Re: Saxon pin brooch? Help please?! « Reply #4 on: June 04, 2010, 04:05:51 am »

Hi,

johnnn is absolutely right. It?s "jewelery" for a horse harness. As far as i can see it at the pictures it?s made from lead. Could you tell us the weight of it just to be sure.

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	Re: Saxon pin brooch? Help please?! « Reply #5 on: June 04, 2010, 04:15:13 pm »

I put it on my small scales and it overloaded it cos they are for small weights. I put it on the kitchen scales and it weighs just over 2 1/4 oz hope this helps. Lee

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	Re: Saxon pin brooch? Help please?! « Reply #6 on: June 07, 2010, 07:58:52 am »

mmhhhh.... how much is 2 1/4 oz in gramm ?? Grin

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	Re: Saxon pin brooch? Help please?! « Reply #7 on: June 07, 2010, 08:20:25 am »

about 69 grams

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	Re: Saxon pin brooch? Help please?! « Reply #8 on: June 07, 2010, 09:14:43 am »

@seldom
many thanks Waveing

Then it?s definately made out of lead. On the back you can see the rest of two rivets ( i marked them yellow ) with them it was fastened on the leather of the harness.

The floral ornament is a very common motive and was used over a long period. I would date this find somewhere between the 14 and 16 century. A more exact defination of the age would be pure speculation, in my opinion.

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	Re: Saxon pin brooch? Help please?! « Reply #9 on: July 03, 2010, 12:28:32 pm »

I think it might be a concho made of lead. I have found some like this even with a leather disk on the back. Most of mine came from the 1840's to 1906 from working old San Francisco CA mud.

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