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Description: | The head and bow of a cruciform small-long brooch, the foot having been broken off. The central part of the headplate is rectangular, 14mm across by 12mm high, and is accented by an outline of grooves engraved onto the metal. Withinin this marginal line on the left, right and upper side are a single row of rainbow or horseshoe motifs, little more than half a millimetre across each individual stamp, and on the lower edge of the headplate this motif is repeated actually on the bow, which rises smooth and flat for some 3mm before meeting the knuckles beyond which the bow sides are chamfered. The three cruciform arms of the headplate are c.13.5mm broad and extend 8.5mm from the central engraved box line. These ares are axe-shaped or semi-lunate, and are undercut to a width of about 5-6mm where they meet the central part of the headplate. The bow spans 17mm and is 8mm broad and 4mm thick at the centre, where the pitch of the double chamfer meets. This ridge is ornamented with two longitudinal grooves. At the foot of the bow the chamfer ends in two further knuckles, and there the foot of the brooch itself is broken off. The attachment plate for the pin is a single dome-topped lug and is encrusted with iron residues from the pin. This is from the same site as SF-2FDD16. Compare, for instance, Icklingham Mitchell's Hill, West Fig.50.5. | Subjects: | small-long Anglo-Saxon | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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