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Description: | Unusual small ansate brooch 35mm long and 9mm wide with equal terminals of 11.5mm length and central bow of approx 14mm lenth and 4mm width. The terminals are pitched longitudinally in profile, with a raised bar 2mm in width at the end, and with two ring and dot motifs on either side of the pitch fully occupying the surface area. The pin attachment consists of two large straight-sided lugs 7mm high and 5mm wide placed side by side, combined width 5.5mm, with a rivet of 1.5mm gauge passing between them, and the pin rolled around it in the space between. The pin itself is lacking. The catchplate is partly broken, but was formed of a solid casting rising from the underside of the opposite end of the brooch at the inner end of the terminal (near the bow)and was hooked in a crescentic form. The ring-and dot ornament, and the large pin attachment lugs and catchplate features, give to this ansate brooch an early appearance possibly of the fifth or sixth centuries. | Subjects: | Anglo-Saxon | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Plunkett, Tom - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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