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Description: | An incomplete, cast copper alloy brooch. An eqqual armed brocch with sub-circular, flat terminals and an arched central bow. Each terminal is decorated with a crudely incised cross. The terminal behind which the catchplate for the missing pin would have been attached has a small, rectangular hole pierced to one side. This may have been part of a mend to replace the catchplate after it was lost. At the back of the other terminal are the two pierced lugs which housed the missing axis bar for the pin. The arched bow is D-sectioned. A similar brooch can be found in Hattatt 2000, p. 380, no. 1684.
Date: Early Medieval - 6th to 8th centuries
Dimensions: 52.14 mm x 15.26 mm x 17.05 mm
Weight: 10.32 g | Subjects: | Equal arm Anglo-Saxon | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Hayward Trevarthen, Ciorstaidh - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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