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Description: | Complete, but worn and corroded, small-long brooch made from copper alloy. The headplate is almost square, 21 x 23.5 mm, but is longer top-to-bottom than side-to-side. The corners are rounded and there are two converging oblique nicks in each side edge, close to the corners. There are also traces of a border of dots around the top and side edges, but no other decoration survives. On the reverse of the headplate is a single pin bar lug with the corroded remains of an iron spring. There is a slight groove forming a rectangle around where the bow springs from the headplate; as the bow is facetted from top to bottom the groove forms small triangular panels. The bow tapers from 8 to 7 mm wide, is not hollowed on the reverse and has a narrow flat strip along the top. At the base of the bow, the foot begins with an oval lobe with no visible decoration; on the reverse is a short catchplate, which retains a fragment of iron pin. Below this lobe is a D-section panel, decorated with three transverse grooves, and then the foot has a long flat flaring terminal. The sides of the terminal are concave and the lower edge is convex, with rounded corners in between. The border of the terminal is decorated with small stamps which may originally have been crescent-shaped. When found, the pin was a mass of iron corrosion which has now been cleaned away. Early Anglo-Saxon, 5th or 6th century AD.
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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