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Description: | A supporting-arm brooch made from copper alloy. The broad head-plate is decorated with horizontal moulded lines, and appears to have four points along the upper edge. The two inner points each conceal a perforated lug to carry the axis bar, around which the spring was wrapped; these lugs are now almost obscured by rust. The two points at the corners are merely decorative. The head-plate tapers into the short bow, which in turn flares slightly into the foot. This is decorated with more moulded horizontal lines and has a catchplate on the reverse. Length: 33.29 mm, width: 26.1 mm, weight: 7.02 g.This brooch is technically of the Mahndorf type, due to its size (width of headplate over 25 mm). The best parallel for its form, however, is a brooch from Kempston, Bedfordshire (Evison 1977, Fig. 1h), which is of the narrower Perlberg type. Supporting-arm brooches date to the early to mid fifth century (MacGregor and Bolick 1993, 150) and are early evidence for Anglo-Saxon fashions in England.
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