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ANNULAR BROOCH
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Bristol City Council, Kurt Adams, 2020-12-08 10:55:28
Title
ANNULAR BROOCH
Description
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Copper alloy annular brooch that has a flat frame that has a rectangular in cross-section.  There is a circular cross-section constriction on one side for the pin. The pin has a cast penannular loop for attachment with a recessed transverse collar separating the shaft of the tapering pin.  Both faces of the frame are engraved with an inscription that is contained within a rectangular border.

One side reads (beginning at the constriction)  IEO RVEO LVEO LVT   

and the opposite side is IEO RVEO LVEO LVEO LVT

Malcolm Jones (pers comm, 2020) comments, ‘I'm tempted to see both legends as somewhat garbled repeated versions of the word LOVE. One can see how in this particular script the R and the L are formed similarly, so that I think we could say that the R was originally intended to be an L, giving in the longer sequence an attempt at LOVE LOVE LOVE’

Traditionally inscriptions on annular brooches would have held a religious significance with AVE MARIA (Hail Mary) or variations of IHESVS NAZARENVS (Jesus of Nazareth) being popular.  These religious inscriptions would normally be written in laten, but examples displaying inscriptions written in English or French are also known and would be used to expresses sentiments of friendship and love as in the case of WAW-D42D94 which reads (+ IO SVI FLUR DE LEL IA, meaning I Am The Flower Of Loyal [Love]) or LVPL-9EAF41 which reads IO SVI CI EN LIV D, meaning 'I am here in the place of a friend (I love).

The recorder is indebted to Malcom Jones for his help in reading the inscription.

Depicted place (County of findspot) South Gloucestershire
Date between 1250 and 1400
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1250-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1400-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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FindIdentifier: 1017709
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/1124187
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/1124187/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
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