It's a fascinating palimpsest, with the helmeted Roman emperor head prototype (including raised hand as seen in solidi of Constantine I, Constantius II and Valens) discernible through the Scandinavian design. Woden's raised hand (as seen in a number of Roman emperor images on coins) and the raven's beak touch the head of the fallen Baeldaeg (in Hauck's plausible interpretation, Behr 2010).

According to Behr (2010): "The new A-bracteate from Brinton relates closely to the typical C-bracteate motif. Stylistically it has close links to a number of A- and C-bracteates from various Scandinavian sites." "Again, the question of its origin remains debatable. Objects and tools but also craftsmen could move. That is why it is difficult to determine the place of origin of a particular object. Unique images among bracteates, a type of pendants that is after all characterised by longer or shorter series of stylistically related objects, are unusual. They tend to be more common in the peripheral areas of bracteate production. It appears also to be less probable that unique images were made and then chosen to be taken to England and more probable that the bracteates from Undley and Brinton, like Hambleden and Market Overton, were designed and made in England with the knowledge and understanding of the meaning they held in Scandinavia. Thus they became local expressions of the same religious ideas. It is worth noting that in England they remained single representations — that is at least what the find situation suggests — and did not start series of stylistically related pendants."