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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy cruciform brooch, comprising the head-plate and bow only. Ager (1983, 59-61) describes it thus: "Three half-round, moulded knobs on the head-plate. On the flat back of this plate are two integral, pierced lugs holding the iron spindle for the now corroded spring of the pin. The bow, which is long, straight-sided and highly arched, is cast slightly off-centre to the head-plate, which is remarkably thick (4.14mm). The brooch has [a worn break] across the junction of the bow and foot-plate, on the back of which would have been the catch-plate for the pin. Since no exact parallel for the extant portion of the brooch is known, the form of the foot remains conjectural, although the [closest parallels] suggest the possibility that it had a triangular terminal rather than the more usual moulded, horse-like head. The ornament consists of moulding of the knobs (which are non-functional), of the triangular notches in either side of the ends of the bow, enclosed between a pair of transverse grooves, and of a broad, median furrow, bounded by a groove either side, along the ridge of the sloping-sided bow. After casting, it appears that the brooch was finished with a file, which has left fine, close, transverse striations under much of the bow and, possibly, the lengthwise grooves on the left-hand side of the top of it." | Subjects: | Aberg Group II Cruciform | 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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