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Description: | Copper-alloy early Anglo-Saxon Cross Potent small-long brooch, (Type 673, p.376 in Hattatt) 53mm long and 27mm wide. The headplate is rectangular, but has some damage and is missing part of its upper edge. It has bi-lobed cut-outs on each side of its upper edge and semi-circular cut-outs on the lower edge, at each side of the bow. The headplate is decorated with ring-and-dot motifs, each consisting of a circle with another smaller circle inside and a dot in the centre. There are four of these, three in a row along the centre of the headplate with one above in the centre, between the two bi-lobed cut outs (or, in other words, one in the centre of the headplate and one in each of the flat 'knobs' projecting from it). The curved bow has a flat area to top and bottom, and a pronounced ridge running down the centre in between. Where it becomes flat at the bottom there are several incised transverse lines. A few more transverse lines appear several millimetres further down, at the bottom of a flat panel, and at this point the brooch becomes slightly narrower. It then widens again, and shortly below has snapped off so that the terminal of the foot is missing. The spring casing and part of the catchplate are still present.
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