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Description: | Anglo Saxon cast copper alloy cruciform brooch fragment, foot only, plano-convex (ie. flat on reverse, convex on obverse). 5th-6th century. Animal head terminal. Rounded expanded fused nostrils defined by a V-shaped groove, and with three longitudinal grooves in the centre. Prominent rounded eyes. Imprecisely inscribed V-shaped groove above and below the eyes. Transverse groove at the junction of the foot and bow, which is broken across a circular piercing - perhaps the piercing is indicative of a rivet hole for a mend? The bow is broken before the start of the catchplate. Dark green patina with some pitting with light green corrosion. Length 38.22mm, width 14.60mm, thickness 4.50mm, weight 9.10g. Cruciform brooches with similar feet are published in MacGregor & Bollick (1993, "Summary Catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon Collections", Oxford) p 98 & 100, no.s 12.6, 12.3 (although the latter has an additional projection at the end of the nose). | Subjects: | Anglo Saxon cruciform | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Atherton, Rachel - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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