#FindsFriday I'm back, internet willing, w fine copper brooch decorated w gold plates + gold wire, set with polished garnets. Mid 7th C. From #Saxon grave of wealthy woman in London's Covent Garden, found w silver rings + glass beads, probably in a bag around her neck. London Museum collections. 🏺

Copper brooch has concentric circles in the centre defined with gold wires and set with garnets, with 4 triangular points extending in N, E, S, W positions. Around the edge is another circular band of garnets. Between the edge and centre, in the spaces between the points are four small circles set with garnet, defined in gold wire, with rounded garnets in the centre of each. In the spaces between small circles and points are gold plates decorated with designs of intertwining gold wire.