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Description: | PS Very remarkable Ae brooch cut down from a larger brooch. The object has no head-plate. A perforation driven through & close to the end of the bow holds the loop of a pin. This is of round-section wire with a median groove running most of the length of one side (the reverse). The bow, the end of which is worked smooth so that it does not resemble a fracture (the pin hole has worked torn to the end), has a median arris & hollow underside. It levels out into a roughly rectangular foot-plate which is decorated along its lower edge with a row of punched half annulets, & which has an intact catch-plate springing from its reverse. The sides of the foot-plate are well finished, one more neatly than the other, but whereas the section of the lower edge is rounded & tapering, the sides are thicker, non-tapering & straight. Part of one half-annular stamp is present on one side of the foot-plate adjacent to the springing of the bow. The position of this lone stamp, along with the thickness of the sides & the row of stamps along the lower edge, indicate that the object was originally a "bow-tie" type equal-armed brooch, such as the pair from Grave 46 at Spong Hill (Hills, Penn & Ricket EAA 21, fig.101 no.2). Such brooches were in use in the years around 500. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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