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A small gold brooch from a weak signal
Top image: Rare 1,500-year-old gold brooch discovered in Denmark. Source: Mikkel Warming / Linda Warming

A small gold brooch from a weak signal

Denmark. mid-6th century AD. Greece and Rome. Known. Free

Known. A gold brooch turned up after a weak metal-detector signal.

The page places it in Denmark, and gives no town. It is from the mid-6th century AD, and about 1,500 years old. It is about four centimetres long, with circles set in a tight pattern. It is thought to be a short-arm fibula, a pin for clothes. An iron pin on the back is badly rusted.

The page says the shapes on it are still open to reading.

https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/gold-brooch-denmark-00102749