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Button brooches are basically small saucer brooches, which were often decorated with a face type pattern. The faces appear to be male faces. This type of face decoration was popular in Anglo-Saxon Oxfordshire in the later fifth and sixth centuries. |
| Button brooches have been found in graves in pairs and on their own, which suggests they may have been worn in a variety of ways to fasten clothes, not just for fastening women's dresses. |  |
See more examples of button brooches in the virtual gallery |
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