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Description: | The basal circular lobe, and a short part of the stem above, from the base finial of the baseplate of a Great Square-headed brooch of Hines Group XV. Like groups XVI and XVII this series has a strongly East Anglian distribution. Group XV is distinguished by incorporating the staring masks and animal ornament which are also found on the florid cruciform brooches, and both types developed in East Anglia during the first half of the sixth century and into the decade or so after 550. Most of Group XV does not have rounded lobes with silver appliques, but one example from Tuddenham St Mary, Lark Valley, West Suffolk, (Hines Pl 50a) does incorporate this feature which is also found in Groups XVI and XVII. The fragment of stem above the lobe preserved in the present example shows that the central field was probably lozenge-shaped, rather than vertically-divided as throughout Group XVI. Thie presence or absence of the vertical bar is a fundamental distinction in the design of the square-headed brooches, and here, as in Group XV, it is absent. The stem, but not the lobe, have been gilt in the present example. It is East Anglian work of the mid-6th century.
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