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Description: | PS Complete small-long brooch, of Leeds' cross potent derivative type. Head-plate, partly covered with ferrous deposit, with two circular perforations through upper corners of central panel. Single transverse groove above bow which has deep median groove & facets on both sides at top & base. Below bow, a flat panel with chamfers along parts of edges above a part-round panel of transverse ribs & grooves. The splayed foot-plate ends in a transverse rib or rolled edge, elaborately decorated with vertical grooves, & with scallops & nicks along the edge. On reverse a single pin bar lug is in part obscured by iron corrosion from the spring. The intact catch-plate contains remains of the pin, an indication that the brooch was not lost with pin open, & that it may have been buried closed, i.e. on a garment.The shiny, slightly silvery appearance is not the result of tin or silver-plating, but of "surface enrichment", the migration of tin in the alloy to the surface during the casting process.6th cent. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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