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Description: | Fragment of a cast copper alloy brooch, probable of part of a Great Square headed type. Early Anglo-Saxon, Decoration consists of two male faces. Anglo-Saxon, two fierce bearded faces. Traces of gilding.Toby Martin comments:While this could be a fragment of cruciform/great square-headed brooch hybrid (e.g. Hines Group XXI, the examples from Little Wilbraham and Kempston are good parallels), it could also be part of a standard great square-headed brooch head-plate, many of which feature similar decoration. Either way, it is the head-plate that is directly inherited from the great square-headed brooches, so this fragment might be better described as part of that series, rather than that of the cruciform brooches
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