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Description: | Cast copper alloy knob from a 'Florid' cruciform brooch with, a stylised human face at centre, and eagles' heads on either side and plain rectangular strip above. There is a projecting pierced flange (width 5,2mm, length c.4.5mm) towards top of the reverse of the knob, then some iron corrosion below , including what appears to be iron pin going through the hole above, then copper alloy rivet to either side (visible on the obverse, just below each eye) securing the remains of a rectangular iron(?) sheet strip which would have covered and held the iron pin. Early Medieval. Length 14.70mm, width 26.76mm, thickness (including flange) 6.82mm, thickness (across one side lobe) 2.04mm, weight 4.51g. | 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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