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Description: | Early Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy supporting-arm brooch. This brooch was previously recorded on this database as an "unknown type" late Roman bow brooch. The original discription of the object has been kept below:The head of the brooch is formed from a flat, rectangular panel capped at either end with a D-shaped pierced lug. The rectangular panel is decorated to the front with two moulded steps and a moulded horizontal beaded line that runs along the bottom edge of the first step. Within the spring case the copper-alloy spring survives intact with six coils, with a short length of the internal spring chord surviving bent beneath the spring case. The axis bar is of iron and runs between the two D-shaped pierced lugs. Nothing of the pin shaft survives.The bow of the brooch humps from the spring case with a sub-triangular cross-section, arrised or keeled down the centre It is C-shaped in side view. The top of the bow is decorated with an integral raised rectangular band, which has a triangular nick out of either end. Above this band is a horizontal, moulded beaded line. This decorative feature is mirrored at the bottom of the bow. Running vertically down the centre of the bow is a faint line of transverse dashes forming beading, which is now worn, especially in the middle of the bow.The foot is short and vertical. The very top of the foot is decorated with a moulded, horizontal beaded line, with squarer beads, and then the nicked band with beaded line below is repeated, although the foot is more corroded here and so details are hard to see. The solid catchplate survives almost complete with the curled catch intact; its upper edge is angled, continuing the line of the bow.Though there is a small patch of light green where the bottom of the foot has been slightly damaged, the brooch survives in good condition, with an unabraded, even mid-green patina. The brooch is 30.52mm long, 15.02mm wide across the head, 4.9mm wide across the bow and weighs 5.98g.Supporting-arm brooches were divided into two types by Böhme (1974), summarised in English by Evison (1977), based on the width of the head; this example belongs to the Perlberg type (head width 12-22mm). They date to the early or mid 5th century.
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