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Description: | A worn cast copper-alloy brooch dating to early-medieval period. The brooch consists of a headplate which is square with rounded corners, arched bow and foot. Following old damage the head and foot are no longer on the same plane. The headplate is worn and abraded; all presence of any potential former knobs has been lost in old damage. On the reverse of the headplate is an abraded pin lug. The pin is missing. At the junction of headplate and bow is a pair of raised transverse ridges. The bow has a median ridge where two facets meet. It is otherwise undecorated. Before the bow drops down to become the foot there are four raised transverse ridges echoing those described above. As with the rest of the brooch the foot is abraded with a damaged patina. Its form is indistinct, but might be zoomorphic. On the reverse of the foot, towards the top end, is the worn catchplate. The brooch resists easy classification since wear has deprived it of diagnostic features at both head and foot. However, the most sensible classification remains that of a small-long brooch given the artefact's size and simplicity. Such brooches have been described by Hattatt (1985, 211) as 'the poor relations of the finer Cruciform and Square-headed Brooches'. Hattatt continues: 'They follow the general form but are much simpler...clearly made for the lower end of the market.' The small-long brooch is an Anglo-Saxon form and is generally datable to the sixth century AD. | Subjects: | small-long Anglo-Saxon | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Webley, Robert - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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