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Description: | Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch, incomplete, copper-alloy early . Only the central panel of the head, the top knob and a small fragment of the bow now survives, the rest is missing due to old breaks. It measures 30.07mm in surviving length and 19.68mm in surviving width. The top knob has been cast seperately and is attached via a projecting rectangular shaped tab with a stud on the underside which engages with the head plate, it may have been secured with solder originally but no trace of this can be seen now. The knob is full round and the rectangular tab, which projects over the front face of the head plate, is decorated with transverse grooves and has a D-shaped cross-section. The central panel is rectangular in shape and has longitudinal border grooves seperating it from the missing wings. The bow fragment is rectangular in shape.
On the back face there is a central singe pin lug with the remains of the corroded iron pin within it.
As this brooch has a full round top knob it is likely to be early in date. A parallel has been found West Stow heath, Suffolk also with a detachable full round top knob (MacGrgor and Bolick 1993, 96-97, no 12.4) | Subjects: | Cruciform Anglo-Saxon | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Minter, Faye - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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