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Description: | Anglo-Saxon, cruciform brooch. The copper alloy fragment consists of the head, bow and part of the foot of the brooch (all integral). The knobs are semi-circular in shape on short raised wasted necks and are decorated with incised lines, possibly representing faces of raised dots for eyes and a broad curled nose. The head plate is rectangular and consists of a raised rectangular central panel which tapers towards the top knob and two wings on either side of the panel. Below the head is the bow which has a C-shaped profile. The bow is decorated with two rectangular depressions, one on either vertical edge, which creates a raised vertical band in the centre of the bow. This bow is then capped by a raised square platform. All that survives of the foot of the brooch is the flat panel, the lappets and a small area of moulding below these. The flat panel is delineated from the bow by a single transverse groove at the top of the panel and is decorated with a zigzag line down each vertical side. Two lappets, one on either side, lead off the flat panel and are decorated with kidney-shaped incised lines. The moulding below the flat panel is decorated with transverse lines and is possibly beaded. The back of the brooch is plain. The double lugs have survived at the top of the brooch and the catchplate with curl is intact at the bottom (although the lower portion of the curl is missing). The spring and pin are entirely missing. The break edge along the foot of the brooch suggests that it is recent. The surface of the object is an even green patina with some patches of orangey-brown, mostly to the reverse. It measures 90.42mm long, 64.62mm wide across the head, 17.84mm wide across the bow, 34.38mm wide across the flat panel and lappets, 14.4mm wide across the lower moulding and it weighs 82.81g. Examples of other early medieval cruciform brooches can be found MacGregor, A. and Bolick, E. 1993. A Summary Catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon Collections (Non-Ferrous Metals). BAR Series 230, p. 95-111. | Subjects: | Cruciform | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Pooley, Laura - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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