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Description: | Fragment of cast, copper alloy Anglo-Saxon square headed brooch. This fragment represents the bow and a fraction of the head plate. The fragment is subrectangular in plan and semicircular in section, though the head plate portion is flat. The bow is arched with three prominent ribs. To the top and bottom left corner of the bow are rounded knops that presumably would have been the corners of the bottom of the head plate and top of the footplate. The portion of head plate that survives is decorated with two dots within a border of incised lines that may be part of a devolved face mask. To the reverse of the surviving headplate portion are two pin bar lugs, one of which is broken across the top of the loop. The pin is completely missing.The brooch fragment retains a lot of gilding between the ribs and some on the head plate. The patina of the metal is mid green. The reverse of the brooch is plain, also mid green in patina with some patches of dark brown. All breaks on the fragment are worn smooth and regularly patinated, suggesting that damage occurred in antiquity. The overall length of the fragment is 35.24mm, it is 22.32mm wide and weighs 12.44g. Square headed brooches date from the late 5th century, rapidly going out of fashion by the last quarter of the 6th century. An example with a three ridged bow can be seen in MacGregor and Bolick, 1993, page 117, number 13.11.
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