Harford Farm Brooch

Harford Farm Brooch

The Harford Farm Brooch is a 7th-century Anglo-Saxon disk brooch.[1] The brooch was originally made in Kent and was found along with a number of other artifacts during an excavation of an Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Harford Farm in Norfolk.[1][2][3] The brooch measures 72mm across.[3] The front of the brooch is gold decorated with glass and garnets while the backplate is silver.[4] On the back of the brooch there is a runic inscription 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.[5]

The brooch is now on display at Norwich Castle.[2]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Harford Farm Disc Brooch". Norfolk Museums & Archaeology Service. Retrieved 3 October 2012.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "http://www.bbc.co.uk/norfolk/senseofplace/vikings_castle_gallery.shtml". A Sense Of Place. BBC. 21 May 2004. Retrieved 3 October 2012.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "The Harford Farm assemblage". Art Fund. Retrieved 3 October 2012.
  4. ↑ Ashwin, Trevor; Penn, Kenneth; Davis, Mary (1992). "A silver composite disc brooch from Harford Farm, Caistor St Edmund". The Quarterly (5): 12–16.
  5. ↑ Bammesberger, Alfred (2003). "The Harford Farm Brooch Runic Inscription". Neophilologus (Springer Science) 87 (1): 133–135. doi:10.1023/A:1021277926944.