River Tyne, Anglo-Saxon brooch
River Tyne, Anglo-Saxon brooch
HER Number
184
District
N Tyneside
Site Name
River Tyne, Anglo-Saxon brooch
Place
North Shields
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
Class
Monument <By Form>
Site Type: Broad
Findspot
Site Type: Specific
Brooch
General Period
EARLY MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Early Medieval 410 to 1066
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
A square-headed bronze brooch, found at or just off Whitehill Point on the north bank of the River Tyne, between Howdon and North Shields, was presented to the Society of Antiquaries by the River Tyne Commissioners on 30th November 1982. Its measurements are: length 144 mm, width of headplate 53 mm, width of foot 41 mm max. It has been silvered or tinned but is in poor condition, with its edges corroded and much of the decoration reduced by patination. The brooch could have originated up-river of where it was found.
Easting
434000
Northing
566000
Grid Reference
NZ434000566000
Sources
<< HER 184 >> A.S. Stevenson,1893, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 2, V (1891-2), pp. 236, 239
W.H. Knowles & R.H. Forster, 1909, Corstopitum: Report on the Excavations in 1908, Archaeologia Aeliana, 3, V, p. 408n
H.H.E. Craster, 1907, Northumberland County History, VIII, p. 316
N. Aberg, 1926, The Anglo-Saxons in England, 56, 194, Table 1, Group V, No. 238
E.T. Leeds, 1949, A Corpus of Early Anglo-Saxon Great Square-Headed Brooches, pp. 81, 86, Pl. 137
E.T. Leeds & M. Pocock, 1971, A study of the Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooches of the florid type, Medieval Archaeology, XV, pp. 32-3
R. Cramp & R. Miket, 1982, Catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon and Viking Antiquities, no. 10 on p. 9, fig. 6, plate 1; J Nolan, with B Harbottle and J Vaughan, 2010, The Early Medieval Cemetery at the Castle, Newcastle upon Tyne, Archaeologia Aeliana, Series 5, Vol 39, p 156
W.H. Knowles & R.H. Forster, 1909, Corstopitum: Report on the Excavations in 1908, Archaeologia Aeliana, 3, V, p. 408n
H.H.E. Craster, 1907, Northumberland County History, VIII, p. 316
N. Aberg, 1926, The Anglo-Saxons in England, 56, 194, Table 1, Group V, No. 238
E.T. Leeds, 1949, A Corpus of Early Anglo-Saxon Great Square-Headed Brooches, pp. 81, 86, Pl. 137
E.T. Leeds & M. Pocock, 1971, A study of the Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooches of the florid type, Medieval Archaeology, XV, pp. 32-3
R. Cramp & R. Miket, 1982, Catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon and Viking Antiquities, no. 10 on p. 9, fig. 6, plate 1; J Nolan, with B Harbottle and J Vaughan, 2010, The Early Medieval Cemetery at the Castle, Newcastle upon Tyne, Archaeologia Aeliana, Series 5, Vol 39, p 156