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Description: | Incomplete head and fragment of bow from a copper-alloy small-long brooch. The head is very worn and all of the edges may be fragmentary. It has a a rectangular plate now measuring c. 19 x 17 mm, and three flat semi-circular 'knobs' sitting on narrow waists. In the centre of the headplate is a very slightly raised area 10 mm wide and 11 mm long, which runs down to the start of the bow. There is no other visible decoration on the head, which has a surviving width of 34 mm. On the reverse is a double pin bar lug with the rusted iron pin bar and spring still in position. The bow begins with a short flat panel with two transverse grooves, and then below this is slightly curved in cross-section with a hollow reverse. The bow is very worn and only a short stub survives. The wear seems to have occurred after breakage, probably due to corrosion; although the front of the brooch is now in a good and stable condition, there are some deep and perhaps active corrosion bubbles on the reverse. Early Anglo-Saxon, fifth or sixth century.
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