Early 7th century Kingston Brooch

What a fascinating archaeological find from Kent! The wonderful Early Medieval Kingsdown Brooch, currently on housed at National Museums Liverpool as part of the Faussett Collection.

Bryan Faussett was an avid Antiquarian excavating c. 750 Early Medieval graves across Kent. You can explore his collection, purchased by Jonathan Mayer here: https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/collections/antiquities/anglo-saxon?page=2&cas__has_image=*&cas__type=all

The Kingsdown brooch came down to Maidstone Museums as part of the KAS's 150th Anniversary Hidden Treasures of Kent exhibition all the way back in 2007. If you saw the exhibition we'd love to see any images you may have taken! Please email them to andy.ward@kentarchaeology.org.uk.

All of Bryan Faussett's notes have been digitised as part of University of Oxford's The Novum Inventorium Sepulchrale, which can be searched here - https://portal.sds.ox.ac.uk/NIS

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