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Description: | Two, probably a pair, of cruciform brooches one is complete the other has only the upper part present.
The complete one measures 128mm in length and is 34mm wide at the head plate with a 16mm shaft. It is made up of protruding knob with two bands of decoration carved into its surface. This is attached to the head plate which is oblong and divided into three sections. The middle section has a triangle in its upper half, the pointed end facing upward. Below the headplate the brooch is arched with an incised ridge running its length. Below the arch, about half way down, the remainder of the brooch is made up of a flat oblong with bands of incised lines running horizontally across its surface. The brooch terminates in a horses head. A triangle covers the forehead and each eye bulges out from beside this, the long nose has a ridge running down from the point of the first triangle to inside the point of a second. Beneath this is a circlur shape that contains the nostrils. The second brooch is 65mm long. It has the upper part remaining and is exactly the same as the first, but is snapped off at the point where the arch terminates. Similar to 667 in Hattatt. Recorded at the Hidden Treasures roadshow in Market Harborough. | Subjects: | Cruciform | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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