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Description: | Cast copper-alloy Kentish small square-headed brooch of Leigh's Series III (Leigh 1980). The brooch is at the smallest end of the range of Kentish square-headed brooches, measuring only 34.01mm in length. Traces of gilding survive on the front. The headplate is rectangular with worn edges, and has decoration comprising a central rectangular zone (perhaps an imitation garnet-setting) with a horizontal groove across the centre. This rectangular zone is surrounded by a pair of concentric rectangular grooves. The bow has a rather flattened cross-section, and is decorated with opposing incomplete elongated grooved ovals down either side. The foot is lozenge-shaped, with its centre emphasised by a grooved lozenge. Above and to either side of this lozenge, just below the junction with the bow, is a pair of curving grooves; these are in the place usually occupied by a small Style I motif. The lower corner of the lozenge is extended down the elongated foot, flanked on either side by a single curving groove. At the bottom the foot expands slightly and is decorated with a grooved square. A single integral pin lug is extant on the reverse of the headplate, with remains of an iron spring/pin present, but no trace of the catchplate survives. The combination of stylised animal motifs, geometric designs and imitation garnet settings puts this brooch with the Kentish-continental series (Parfitt and Brugmann 1997, 35), and this example probably dates to circa AD 530/40 to 560/70. In some ways it is hard to know if this is a very simplified version of a small square-headed brooch, or should be classed as a small-long brooch imitating a square-headed brooch; the latter tend to have much simpler decoration than on this example.
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