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Description: | A copper-alloy early Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch, in very good condition although missing most of its foot due to an old break. The top knob is unusual and interesting; it is cast with the brooch, is only slightly rounded, and is decorated with transverse grooves. Projecting from its upper edge there is a flat retangular panel, measuring 12mm by 7mm. This panel is decorated with a transverse row of crescent-shaped punchmarks near its lower edge.
The central panel of the headplate is rectangular, as are the two wings, which are both decorated with one longitudinal row of cresent-shaped punchmarks along the edges closest to the central panel. The side knobs are again only very slightly rounded, and are cast as one with the rest of the brooch.
The bow measures 17mm in length and 9mm in width. It has a transverse ridge at its top and bottom, and a longditudinal ridge down its centre. The flat panel has two transverse grooves across it and below these two crescent-shaped indentations, one on each edge. There are two lappets; one is more complete than the other, and is rectangular in shape. The beginning of the half-round panel remains and the rest of the foot of the brooch is missing.
On the back face the pin loop, with the remains of a corroded iron pin through it, and the catch plate are present.
Although the foot is largely missing from this brooch, its size and the shape of the headplate suggest that it would originally have been in the shape of a horse's head, making this brooch of the 'cruciform' type. It dates broadly to the sixth century AD. | Subjects: | cruciform Anglo-Saxon | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Minter, Faye - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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