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Description: | Part of and Early Saxon copper alloy Great square-headed brooch, burnt with blackened surface and crazing on face, comprising openwork foot-plate, broken at both ends with longitudinally grooved footplate bar, flanked by two triangular perforations (broken across one) set within running two-strand interlace on the inner panel frame, damaged lower borders, side lobes missing. The remains of a short broken catch-plate (14mm) spring from a vertical rib on the reverse of the foot-plate. Granular breaks. >32 x >52mm. Leeds (1949) type B1, Hines Group XVI. This brooch dates to the sixth century AD. The Group XVI type is the most numerous of great square-headed brooch types and is largely restricted to East Anglia. This brooch would have been worn by a woman to fasten her cloak, both in life and in the grave. | Subjects: | Great square-headed Hines Group XVI | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Bales, Ellen - Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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