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Description: | Early Saxon incomplete brooch, recent breaks, either a cruciform or a small-long with cruciform head. Waisted, half-round top-knob with transverse grooves and partly hollow reverse. Most of one wing and most of remaining cast-in-one side knob missing. Panel and wings with punched annulets. Rectangular panel with side notches and two transverse grooves at top and base of hollow-backed bow. This is decorated with two lines of punched dots along the median arris. The foot tapers past a pair of transverse grooves and the beginning of a chamfer on one edge. Below this all is missing. Single pin lug and unusually intact remains if iron spring, pin and most of catchplate missing. Surviving length 48mm. 6th century. | Subjects: | Anglo-Saxon | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Bales, Ellen - Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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