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Description: | A fragment of an early Anglo-Saxon cruciform or small-long brooch made from copper alloy. Only the head plate of this brooch survives, with the rest missing due to old breaks. The head plate is worn and roughly rectangular, measuring 23mm in width and 19mm in length. There is a pair of indentations in each long edge. A longitudinal groove near to each edge can be seen, but no other decoration is visible. On the back face the remains of the pin attachment with corroded iron, probably derived from the pin, can be seen. Helen Geake writes: The shape of the headplate on this brooch, with a pair of indentations in both the upper and lower edges, would be unusual in a small-long brooch. It seems more likely that the brooch is instead of the cruciform type, although without the foot (which is in the shape of a horse's head on the cruciform type) this cannot be absolutely certain. If it is a cruciform, it would originally have had three knobs on the headplate, one in the centre of the top edge and one on each side.
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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