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Description: | Early Anglo-Saxon gilded copper-alloy cross-shaped elaborate side-knob from a florid cruciform brooch. It measures 26 x 29mm, and has been bent so it is now slightly concave. It has been cast with deeply modelled detail, comprising a central rectangular boss attached by a rivet with two concentric ridges and a central dot, flanked by two pairs of scrolls supporting rectangular silvered plates. The terminal mask has prominent eyebrows, eyes, side curls and a triangular nose; the opposite and inner openwork edge of the plate is broken across twin perforations (through possible eyes) with possible eyebrows. Raised corroded area around rivet on flat reverse. Leeds and Pocock (1971) type V. Late 6th century. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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