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Description: | A terminal fragment of a copper-alloy middle Anglo-Saxon ansate (caterpillar) brooch. This fragment is 23.3mm in length and 9.5mm in width, it is rectangular in plan. The bow fragment is arched in profile and appears to have been flat backed, it has a four armed indentation with a lozenge shaped moulding around this. As well as transverse notches in opposing pairs on either edge. The bow flares slightly into the terminal, which has a central projection and two parallel longitudinal grooves running down from the bow to the tip of the terminal.
On the back face of the terminal the pin lug ( a single transverse loop) survives, with corroded iron within and around it, probably the remains of the pin.
This fragment is very similar to a complete example from Isleham, Cambridgeshire (see SF-8E07A2) and Suffolk examples from Wattisfield, WSF 049 (West 1998, p251, no 3), and Carlton Coalville(CAC 008). Hattatt discussed the possiblity that these are an East Anglian product (1987, p383). | Subjects: | ansate | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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