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Description: | Mercury-gilded bow of an Anglo-Saxon great square-headed brooch. The find comprises the rectangular, arched bow, which would originally have joined the head- and foot-plates of an Anglo-Saxon square-headed brooch; length, 32.0 mm. It is decorated with two rows of chip-carved scrollwork flanking a flat median rib engraved with a zigzag, as are the two lateral ribs, and there are old breaks at each end. In form it can be broadly compared with the bow of the brooch from Fairford, grave 20, Gloucestershire, and it dates to the earlier part of the 6th century AD (J. Hines, 1997, A New Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Great Square-Headed Brooches (Woodbridge), pl. 8a. XRF-analysis at the British Museum identified the metal of the brooch as copper alloy with significantly less than 10% precious metal content. | Subjects: | Great Square-headed Hines Group I | 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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