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Description: | Head and part of bow from a copper-alloy small-long brooch. The head is very large; the central plate measures 19 x 18 mm, and the flat semi-circular 'knobs', each attached by a narrowed waist, bring the width of the head up to 51 mm. The bow, by contrast, is narrow, tapering from 8 m wide where it leaves the headplate to a minimum of 7 mm wide at the fresh break. The bow is facetted for most of its length; there is a kind of flat panel at the top, but with its corners cut off, and a shallow flat panel at the bottom which is broken through. On the reverse of the headplate is a double pin bar lug, one half broken at the perforation. There is an oval hole - probably a casting flaw - through the top knob. Nearly the whole of the object is covered in thick corrosion, although here and there patches of a dark grey patina, polished to a high gloss, show through. The corrosion means that no decoration is visible. Both the usual green and a more unusual bright blue corrosion are present; the blue may be azurite. On the front, the blue corrosion (on one side knob and around the top of the bow) has the look of preserved curly fibres but with no structure, rather like felt. There is more on the reverse, both within the green and the blue corrosion, around the pin bar lug and the top of the bow. The brooch is 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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