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Description: | Two joining fragments of a cast copper alloy Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch. The fragments comprise most of the head, the bow and some of the foot. The break in the 2 fragments probably ocurred recently rether than in antiquity, and runs across the head just above the bow. The break in the foot probably ocurred in antiquity, and runs across a decorated half-round panel, meaning that the zoomorphic (horse head) terminal is missing. The surviving head has an integrally cast half-round top knob, 6.1mm thick, 14.6mm across at the base and 12.0mm long. This has a 2.6mm wide central groove with 2 incised lines beneath it. The 2 side knobs are missing. The head has a square central panel approx 22mm wide and 22mm long, with flaring wings each approximately 14mm wide and maybe 26mm long (the bottom of one wing is missing, and the other is damaged). The face of the head panels is corroded and damaged, but does not seem to have any decoration. Behind the head is a projection (approx 13mm long by 10mm high by 4mm wide) for the pin and spring, which are missing. The bow is 31.7 mm long, narrowing from 20.4mm wide at the top to 17.4mm at the bottom. It consistis of a gentle curve with facets and a concave rear, and a small flat panel at either end each decorated with tranverse incised lines. There is 28.0mm of the foot surviving, narrowing from 17.4mm wide at the top to 10.8mm wide at the bottom. There is a flat panel (16.7mm long) with 2 side lappets, and a half-round panel. The lappets are approx 11mm long and project 6.6mm. They are zoomorphic with an eye? at the top and a hole through the lappet below (2.7mm diameter). There are 2 incised lines running transversely across the flat panel approx 2/3 way down from the bow. The half-round panel has 2 grooves, one 2.5mm wide and below it another 1.3mm wide. The zoomorphic termional at the end of the foot is broken off. On the rear of the foot, behind the flat panel is the remains of the catchplate (15.7mm long, projecting 8mm and 2-3mm thick). This is broken off (old break) where it would have been bent over to take the pin. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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