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Description: | A fragment of an early-medieval copper-alloy cruciform brooch. The fragment consists of the brooch's foot, the beginnings of the bow, and the remnant of the catchplate on the reverse. It is rectangular in plan and terminates in a flattened round knob, itself part of a horse-head terminal. An old break has detached the majority of the bow and its headplate: the remnant of the bow varies in length from 7.3 to 4.7mm; the break is diagonal. This remnant features two tranverse lines on the obverse, one of which is incised at the point where the bow meets the foot. Below each of these lines are two nicks on the edges of the brooch. The reverse is completely flat and undecorated. As stated, it features the remnant of the catchplate, extending 18.4mm down the foot from the point where the bow meets the foot. Above the catchplate, on the obverse, is the flat panel. From the bow end, the flat panel is decorated by three incised tranverse lines. Below these it is bevelled into three equal faces before terminating in a raised transverse rib. This rib marks the beginning of the half-round panel, an element usually found between the flat panel and the terminal. Where the small half-round panel meets the horse-head terminal there is a further pair of raised ribs. The terminal is bi-faceted and features two prominent raised 'eyes'. At these eyes the foot reaches a maximum thickness of 5.3mm. The terminal itself terminates in a sub-circular flattened knob which is decorated with two incised chevrons, just below the point where the body of the brooch becomes the knob. Anglo-Saxon, 5th, or early 6th century. Examples of similar terminals can be found in West (1998, 304-305).
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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