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Harford Farm Brooch

7th-century Anglo-Saxon disk brooch

Harford Farm Brooch
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7th-century Anglo-Saxon disk brooch

Harford Farm Brooch
The back of the brooch

The Harford Farm Brooch is a 7th-century Anglo-Saxon disk brooch. The brooch was originally made in Kent and was found along with a number of other artifacts during an excavation of an Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Harford Farm in Norfolk. and was found in grave 11. The front of the brooch is gold decorated with glass and garnets while the backplate is silver. On the back of the brooch there is a runic inscription reading "ᛚᚢᛞᚪ:ᚷᛁᛒᛟᛏᚫᛋᛁᚷᛁᛚᚫ" (luda:gibœtæsigilæ), which Norfolk Museums & Archaeology Service translates as “Luda repaired the brooch”; however “may Luda make amends by means of the brooch” has been offered as a translation by Alfred Bammesberger in the journal Neophilologus. In addition to the runes, the back of the brooch also has a scratched zoomorphic decoration.

The brooch is now on display at Norwich Castle.

References

References

  1. "Harford Farm Disc Brooch". Norfolk Museums & Archaeology Service.
  2. (21 May 2004). "Anglo Saxons and Vikings at Norwich Castle Gallery". BBC.
  3. "The Harford Farm assemblage". Art Fund.
  4. Williams, Howard. (2006). "Death and Memory in Early Medieval Britain". Cambridge University Press.
  5. (1992). "A silver composite disc brooch from Harford Farm, Caistor St Edmund". The Quarterly.
  6. (2003). "The Harford Farm Brooch Runic Inscription". Springer Science.
  7. Martin, Toby F. (December 2011). "Identity and the Cruciform Brooch in Early Anglo-Saxon England: an Investigation of Style, Mortuary Context, and Use". University of Sheffield.
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