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The Monkton Brooch

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

Sonia Chadwick Hawkes
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The Monkton brooch was found in 1971 when mechanical trench digging disturbed a large Anglo-Saxon cemetery north of Monkton village on Thanet, east Kent. It is a large composite disc brooch made of electrum, silver, and gilded bronze, set with garnets, blue glass, and shell Consideration of its design, construction, and very pale, silver-debased, gold suggests that it was made no earlier than c. A.D. 640–50 and is amongst the latest of Kentish composite brooches.

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 54 , Issue 2 , September 1974, pp. 245 - 256
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1974

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