The Quoit Brooch Style and Anglo-Saxon Settlement: A Casting and Recasting of Cultural Identity SymbolsThe quoit brooch style, a decorative style of animal and geometric motifs, is unique to southern England in the 5th century AD, with the greatest concentration of such items occurring in Kent. The author defines the style through an analysis of its design organization, and, by comparing it with near-contemporary styles in England and on the continent, he identifies those features which make it unique. |
Contents
The Jutish contribution to the formation of Kentish cultural | 94 |
the Quoit Brooch Style and AngloSaxon | 103 |
Catalogue of Quoit Brooch Style objects and related items | 122 |
Distributions of zoomorphic design features in Quoit Brooch | 166 |
The rules of design organisation of the Quoit Brooch Style | 173 |
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Åberg Ager Alfriston Amiens animal heads Artefact type Location Associations References beaded double dots Bénouville Bifrons Bifrons pendants Bishopstone Bishopstone belt plate Böhme border animals Boundary o Field Bowcombe bracteates Brighthampton British Museum Brooch Style objects buckle and plate Bullinger 1969 C-bracteates Chécy chip-carving counterplate Croydon strap cultural identity East Sussex element arrangement Boundary element arrangement head equal-arm brooch Evison example Faversham Faversham belt plate Field I motif fifth century Finglesham full animals geometric grave Haseloff Hengest Highdown Highdown belt slide Howletts quoit brooch Inker Jutland Kentish Kingsworthy late Roman Lyminge motif element arrangement Mucking belt set Mucking buckle plate Number of fields Nydam style Oisc openwork Orpington palmettes Pewsey Pewsey strap end quadrupeds Quoit Brooch Style rectangular Rule Scale 1:1 Figure Scandinavian scroll sea lions semicircles Shape Size Material Sommer square-headed brooch stylistic tendril Text Figure triangles triangular White width Winterbourne Gunner zoomorphic zoomorphic patterning