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Description: | Bow and part of headplate from a gilded Kentish square-headed brooch of Leigh's series I or III (this depends on the material; see below). The headplate fragment has a central panel with zoomorphic Style I decoration (one very neat leg is clearly visible), surrounded by a raised band with inlaid niello decoration. There appears to be some kind of relief decoration outside this raised band as well, although the surviving fragment here is very small. The bow has a raised central band running longitudinally, dividing two panels of Style I decoration. These have slightly lower raised bands running around the three other sides. The nearest parallel in Leigh 1980 is one from Bifrons grave 63. Early Anglo-Saxon, first half of sixth century AD. This object has been identified from the image only, and from this appears to be of gilded silver (with some copper-alloy corrosion in the centre of the bow). The original find recording form, however, states that the brooch is gilded copper alloy. If the brooch is silver, it will be of Leigh's series I; if copper alloy, it will be of Leigh's series III. | Subjects: | Leigh's series I or III Kentish square headed | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Richardson, Andrew - Canterbury Archaeological Trust | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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