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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy Early Medieval Anglo Saxon small long brooch; 500-600 AD. The head is a cruciform around a central square head-plate, with double transverse incised lines between the central plate, the wings, top knop and bow. The square head-plate is 6.5mm wide. One wing and the top knop are complete, the other wing has half lost to an old break. All are integrally cast and half rounded in section with a flat back and convex front. The complete wing is 8.2mm long and the top knop 10.3mm; both have a broad transverse rib across the front about a third of the way along then a smaller, faint, transverse rib just below the rounded knop at the terminal. There is a large semicircular lug to hold the pin at the back of the central square of the head plate; it is surrounded by iron corrosion, possily the remains of the pin, which obscures the piercing.
The arched bow is mostly triangular in section with a flat back and carinated front. At each end are rectangular cross-sectioned parts of the bow with double transverse inscribed lines flanking the main triangular cross-sectioned part. The bow is 6.4mm wide by 2.9mm thick at the centre, the widest point from which it tapers slightly to either end. There is an old break at the end of the bow and the foot is missing. The surviving length is 38.5mm, the surviving width is 20.1mm and the weight is 5.27g. | Subjects: | Long Anglo-Saxon | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Burnett, Laura - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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