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 ANGLO-SAXON REMAINS a rough copy of a coin which cannot be identified with certainty. At the back is a similar reproduction of the reverse of the same or another coin, which may have been a Merovingian copy of a coin of Carausius (287-93) minted by Childebert or Dagobert in the second half of the seventh century. This however does not fix the date of the brooch, which from comparison with others in the British Museum and elsewhere l with broad beaded borders appears to belong to the ninth or tenth century, when Anglo-Saxon art had become extinct, and new forms, introduced from the continent, foreshadowed the Norman conquest of our island. Several are figured and described in Journal of British Archaohgual Atsociafion, ii. 313. 261.