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Description: | Complete small-long brooch in excellent condition. Made from copper alloy with no obvious trace of a surface coating, it has a rectangular headplate which is undecorated except for a small V-shaped bevelled nick in the centre of the top edge. One corner of the headplate is slightly bent. On the reverse of the headplate is a single pin bar lug with remains of the iron pin bar. The bow is triangular in cross-section, flat on the reverse, and there is no flat panel at top or bottom, or any other trace of decoration. It is slightly worn at its highest point. There is a flat-topped moulding at the top of the foot, and then a length with a truncated-triangle cross-section ?? like the bow in shape, but with a flat apex. On the reverse of this area is a catchplate which has lost its turned-over part. Below this the cross-section changes to half-round; this area is made up of two mouldings, each decorated with a pair of fine grooves, above a triangular terminal whose upper edges are bevelled. The terminal has some corrosion but in general the condition is very good and the absence of punchmarks can clearly be seen.
Small-long brooches are an early Anglo-Saxon type and are thought to mainly date from the century 450-550 AD.
Length 71 mm, width of headplate 24 mm, weight 24.72g. | Subjects: | small long Anglo-Saxon | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Geake, Helen - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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