Description

Brooch with four triangular insets of garnets, and four circular and one large central circular setting of shell. Found in grave 17, during excavations at an Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Butler's Field, Lechlade, Gloucestershire, in 1985. The grave belonged to a child aged around four to five years old. Child graves were unusually wealthy in Butler’s Field, with even very young children being buried with very intricate and high-status objects. Garnets are found throughout the graveyard and would have come from Sri Lanka.

Object Name

Gilt-bronze keystone garnet disc brooch

Accession Number

1997/25/17/1

Category

anglosaxon

Site Location

Butler's Field, Lechlade

Tags

Anglo-Saxon, brooch, jewellery