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Description: | A complete copper-alloy early Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch in extremely good condition, measuring 101.3mm in total length.
The head consists of a central panel only (measuring 8.6mm in height and c13mm in width) with no wings and a single top knob. The top knob is full round and faceted, measuring c7.3mm in diameter. The narrow head and the full round faceted knob are both indicators of an early date for this brooch.
The bow measures 35.4mm in length and 13.6mm in width. It has faceting and transverse grooves at its start and its base. There is also a central longitudinal ridge running down its length on either side of which faint traces of longitudinal rows of small circular indentations can be seen.
Below the bow the flat panel is long, c18mm in length and 8.7mm in width. It is also decorated with small circular indentations, this time arranged as two single longitudinal boarder rows (one near to each longitudinal edge) and as two double longitudinal rows inbetween the single boarder rows.
The half round panel has three transverse mouldings with incised grooves inbetween them across it. The foot then terminates in a horse head terminal. This again has boarders consisting of small circular indentations and a double longitudinal row of circular indentations running down the centre of the head. The eyes protrude vertically and outwards from the sides of the head. As do the flaring nostrils, each of which is decorated with two diagonal grooves.
On the back face of this brooch behind the head there is the remains of the pin loop with corroded iron within it, probably the remains of an iron pin. The catch plate, which runs the length of the foot is also complete.
Similar early Anglo-Saxon 5th century cruciform brooches have been discovered elsewhere in Suffolk (West 1998, 304, fig 145, no 1-5). | Subjects: | cruciform | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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