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Description: | Three gilded copper-alloy fragments, all thought to derive from one great square-headed brooch of Hines Group XVI, a type predominantly East Anglian in distribution and the largest group within the English great square-headed series. Two of the fragments are from the headplate, and the third from the upper end of the bow. The two fragments from the headplate are from its upper edge, and show that it had an undecorated headplate frame 8mm wide. The headplate second panel is flanked by two flat-topped 3mm wide ridges, the outer one being 40mm across and the inner one about 25mm across. In the 5mm band of space between the inner and outer ridge is a guilloche (simple twist) of five crossings (6 loops) with a pellet at each corner. Similar ornament can be seen on the small surviving fragment of the side of the headplate second panel, and would have originally filled the entire panel. The guilloche also appears at the head of the bow where it joins the lower part of the headplate. The inner panel of the headplate apparently contained a triple vertical bar, with a pierced square space on either side. This is most nearly paralleled on the Holywell Row (Mildenhall) grave 14 brooch (Hines Pl 60(b) & Pls 62-65). As in all these brooches, and especially the Holywell Row specimen, the bow has a pronounced central ridge and upturned outer edges, creating two deep and hollowed vertical channels. The bow is 19mm wide, and the headplate now 52mm wide, but probably originally slightly wider. There were two semicircular lugs on the back of the headplate just at the top of the bow, maximum 10mm apart (externally) to attach the pin. This brooch is not burnt or distorted, but only broken into pieces. It is early Anglo-Saxon, and dates to the 6th century AD. | Subjects: | Hines Group XVI great square headed | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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