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Description: | Small-long brooch, missing the terminal to the foot. The head consists of a central square plate, decorated with two vertical rows of crescentic stamps which continue the line of the bow edges upwards. The stamp used appears to be rather crude and the rows are irregular. The headplate is worn, and four stamps in each row can clearly be seen, although there are hints of others running right up to the edge of the square plate. On three sides of the square central plate are large flat mushroom-shaped knobs, with cut-out curves making the 'stems'. The total width of the headplate is 40 mm. On the reverse of the headplate is a single pin bar lug blocked with corrosion from the iron pin bar. The bow is only 7 mm wide, and has a flat panel at top and bottom. The top panel has two transverse grooves and the lower panel has a single one. In between, the bow is D-shaped in section with a flat reverse. The foot begins with a flat panel with two transverse grooves at its lower edge. Below this is a short panel with bevelled edges, and then there is a panel with a D-shaped section. This ends in an old break. On the reverse of the surviving part of the foot is a worn catchplate. The foot is only 5 mm wide at the break. Surviving length 62 mm. This is a classic Early Anglo-Saxon object type, occasionally a casual loss but more often deposited in the ground as part of the clothed burial of a woman.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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