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Description: | A cast copper alloy cruciform brooch of the 6th or 7th century. This is a fine piece, apparently well-made and in good condition. The brooch has a good dark green patina. The brooch was incomplete until recently, when the finders located the ??head??. Although in two pieces, it appears that the brooch is complete (unless there were side mounting on the head, still lost). The brooch is very regular in shape, and slightly convex in section through the body (the reverse is slightly hollow along its length). The head is a rough square, with decoration set in from the slightly concave side edges, in the form of closely spaced thin lines upon which are regular small semicircles. The head has a typical knop terminal. The rest of the brooch has a fair amount of carefully-executed decoration: the bow has more semicircles along its edges, and a shallow groove running down the middle; the ??bottom?? end has the usual stylised horse??s head, with the neck broken up by raised horizontal banding. This brooch is likely to have come from a disturbed burial. | Subjects: | Anglo-Saxon | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | ANDREWS, Dominic - Illustrator | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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