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Description: | A copper-alloy early Anglo-Saxon small long brooch, it measures 68mm in total length. It has a rectangular head plate, the edges of which are incomplete due to wear, which measures 19.6mm in width and 16mm in length. A central panel is defined by a rectangular border groove with small crescent shaped punchmarks along its inside edges, except the edge above the bow. The bow is faceted and decorated with two transverse grooves at its top and base and two parallel central longitudinal grooves running along its length. The flat panel below the bow also has two transverse grooves across it and the half round panel has bands of four transverse grooves, a transverse ridge and finally two transverse grooves across it. The flat foot now tapers to a rounded terminal due to wear and old damage. It is likely to have flared slightly at its tip originally. On the reverse the suspension loop for the pin can be seen in the centre of the back of the head; it is surrounded with the corroded iron remains of the pin. The catchplate also survives on the back face of the flat panel.
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