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Description: | Head and bow from a copper-alloy small-long brooch. The headplate is rectangular, 29 x 21 mm, with a double engraved line running the full length of three sides to form a border with outlined corners. Within this border is an inner border of double-crescent stamps. Neither border appears to extend along the lower edge, but this is very heavily corroded. On the reverse is some extremely thick copper-alloy corrosion, and iron corrosion from a pin bar and spring which almost obscures a single central pin bar lug. The bow extends from the lower edge of the headplate, and also has a lot of thick bubbly corrosion on the reverse. It has a flat panel at top and bottom; the bottom panel is almost completely missing (old break) but the upper panel appears to have two transverse grooves. In between the flat panels, the bow is facetted and has a double groove down the centre. The corrosion on the brooch varies. One face of the bow, and the bottom of the headplate, has powdery green corrosion. The reverse of bow and headplate has thick, sponge-like but hard corrosion. The remaining areas (top and other face of bow, upper part of headplate) has a strange brassy patina. Early Anglo-Saxon, fifth or sixth century.
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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