Description

Summary: A gilded copper alloy small square-headed brooch excavated from an Anglo-Saxon grave at Barrow Clump by Operation Nightingale, 2012-2014.

Research results

A gilded copper alloy small square-headed brooch, found with the burial of a young woman of around 18-21 during excavations of an Early Medieval burial ground at Barrow Clump, excavated by Operation Nightingale, 2012-14. The brooch is of a type dated to the early 6th century and actually depicts a very rudimentary human mask. This type of brooch is found accross southern England, but have so far been fairly rare in Wiltshire cemeteries.