9th century AD. A complete women's brooch, bead and pendant assemblage comprising: two bronze oval brooches, each domed with raised ornament, wide pierced flange, pin-lugs and catch to the reverse; two bronze omega-shaped suspension loops and three strands of graduated flame-worked glass beads mostly oblates or barrels, with coloured trailed decoration; three gilt-bronze discoid pendants, each with rosette of raised pellets and scrolls. 311 grams total, brooches: 68-70mm (2 3/4"). Property of a London businessman, from his grandfather's collection formed after World War II; thence by descent 1972. See MacGregor, A. et al. A Summary Catalogue of the Continental Archaeological Collections, Oxford, 1997, item 4 for oval brooches; Ewing, T. Viking Clothing, Stroud, 2007. [3]

Very fine condition.