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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy brooch, almost certainly a cruciform but just possibly a small-long brooch (as the foot is missing this brooch cannot be placed with total certainty into either one of these categories). The head survives, the top knop is damaged but appears to have been full-round in shape and integral rather than cast separately. The central panel is 14mm by 12mm in size and decorated with five ring-and-dot, one in each corner and one in the middle of the panel. Fragments of the wings survive these are decorated with vertical straight lines which are alternate with vertical lines of small circles. The front face of the bow is convex and 38mm in length and 13mm in width. There are panels at its start and base, each with a ring-and-dot in its centre and two transverse rows of circles at its edges, there is also a longditudinal groove running down the centre of the bow. The foot is missing due to an old break. The back face appears to be suffering more from corrosion and the pin attachment can be seen. This brooch is early Anglo-Saxon and is likely to date to the 5th or early 6th century.
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