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Description: | Copper-alloy small-long brooch. The end of the foot is missing and the brooch is very abraded. The headplate was probably originally rectangular, with three mushroom-shaped knobs formed by taking two semi-circular cut-outs from the base of semi-circular projections. There is a double groove across the base of each knob, and most of the edges have gone so that no further decoration (such as stamped borders) survives. The headplate has a high polish in between the corrosion bubbles. On the reverse is a single pin bar lug, blocked with iron corrosion and with patches of corrosion from the pin and bar all around. The bow is narrow and very corroded. It begins with a flat panel which is decorated with a pair of edge nicks and a transverse groove. Beneath, the bow is facetted and fairly straight (perhaps bent out of shape). It tapers and flattens down to the foot. There are two widely spaced transverse grooves at the base of the bow. The foot continues to taper down to the break, and has the remains of a catchplate on the reverse. The maximum surviving width (at the head) is 26 mm; the surviving length is 47 mm. Early Anglo-Saxon, 5th or 6th century AD.
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