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Description: | Copper alloy fragment, possibly a crescentic foot from an Anglo Saxon small long brooch. This object is sub-triangular in plan, having a distinct curve to either side giving the crescentic shape. It has chamfered edges to the front and back plains of the fragment and the the bottom edge of the fragment is also chamfered to front and back, so that the bottom edge is V shaped when viewed in profile. The top of the fragment, where the object narrows, is broken across, suggesting that the fragment has been snapped off from the main body of another object, possibly the bow of a brooch. The fragment is decorated on the front side with crudely incised lines. At the point of the break are two parallel horizontal lines and following the curve at the bottom edge of the object are four diagonal incised lines, running for no more than 2mm. The reverse of the fragment is plain.The patina is an even dark green. The object is 19.94mm long, 24.36mm wide, 4.3mm thick and weighs 6.91g. An example of a small long brooch with a crescentic shaped foot can be found in West, (1998) A Corpus of Anglo Saxon material from Suffolk (Page 167, Figure 50, number 7) though this has different decoration. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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