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About this object

  • ID:

    BC72[250]<3058>

  • Production date:

    Medieval; late 13th - early 14th century

  • Location:

    In Store

  • Iron brooch with a copper alloy shield attached. The brooch is in an 'm' or 'b' shape and is missing its pin. The shield in the centre can turn so it is hard to know which way up the brooch was supposed to be displayed. The shield is decorated with arms of the Earls of Lancaster. The brooch was found in a rubbish dump created during the construction of the medieval dock at Baynard's Castle next to the river Thames. The dock was built between the late 14th and early 13th centuries. If the arms on the brooch are those of the Earls of Lancaster, they are likely to be the arms of one of the first two earls, Edmund or Thomas (1245-1322). The date of the deposit in which the object was found, together with the fact that the brooch must have been in use for some time before being disposed of as rubbish, make this almost certain to be the correct date range.

  • Measurements

    H 100 mm; W 62 mm (overall)

  • Materials

    copper alloy; iron

  • Last Updated

    2024-03-14

FURTHER INFORMATION
  • NUMBER OF ITEMS

    1

  • STATUS

    archaeological archive

  • COPYRIGHT HOLDER

    digital image copyright Museum of London

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