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Description: | Early medieval bow brooch; wrougth copper alloy brooch of the middle Saxon period (c. 700-900). The brooch is formed of a single strip of copper alloy wire, which is expanded to form a lozenge-shaped plate in the centre but narrows to wire on either side of the plate. At the base of the plate the wire is simply curled round to form a hook which acts as a catchplate for the pin. At the top of the plate the wire is looped round on itself in a single loop to the right of the plate, forming a primitive spring. The wire is then bent back down along the length of the brooch to form the pin, which tapers to a point at the end. The lozenge plate is rather worn but traces of decoration can be discerned, in the form of a double transverse line and possible punched annulets across the top of the plate.
Length 56.9mm, width 10.4mm, thickness 14.6mm, weight 5.87g
Ref: Hattatt ??A Visual Catalogue of Richard Hattatt??s Ancient Brooches?? (pp. 281, fig. 140, nos. 1442 and 1385)
Leahy, The Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Lindsey, page 146, Fig 52 | Subjects: | bow Anglo-Saxon | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Rohde, Anja | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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