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Description: | Copper alloy object 22mm long, 7mm wide and 6mm thick. It is essentially a flat-backed item with decoration on the front similar to that of the feet of small-long brooches of the 5th-6th centuries, namely transverse bands with parallel grooves set across a strip of convex or carinated section. In this case there are two bands crossing towards the lower end, beyond which the strip is chamfered with a central flat surface of 3mm width within an overall width of 7mm. Above these the strip is fully chamfered leaving only a central carina, over a length or height of 5mm. This is topped by a transverse band of 3mm height with three parallel grooves across it. All these details would permit one to believe one was looking at a small-long brooch similar to another example from the same findspot, but this fragment has a detail which cannot be reconciled with that identification. Above the transverse band last mentioned, the metal expanded in thickness to form a lug or pivoting ring aligned in the vertical axis. The breadth of the strip is reduced to 3mm but its thickness increased to 7mm, and at the fractured upper end one can see that the break has passed through a circular piercing. Therefore, this fragment is not a brooch fragment but could be the terminal end of an early Anglo-Saxon girdle hanger, the integral loop being its suspension loop.
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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