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Description: | Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch foot, cast copper alloy, 60mm long and c.10-12mm wide. The top half of this fragment (30mm) is decorated with horizontal lines. The upper part of this, about 10mm, juts forward and would have formed the lower half of the arched part of the brooch. It has one line deirectly below this. About 6mm further down are two lines, 8mm further still there are four lines close together. The lower half is in the form of an aminal head. About a third of the way in are two sets of two diagonal lines which cross in the middle. On either side of these a small raised blob forms the eyes. In the next 10mm the object begins to form a central vertical ridge, which terminates in a chevron formed of three parallel lines. From this point the object flares out into a circular form which represents the snout of the animal. The central lower part of this shape has an inverted U shape where a loop may have been attached.
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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