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Description: | A worn fragment of an early-medieval cast copper-alloy cruciform brooch. The fragment consists of the horse-head terminal typical of this type of brooch. Its reverse is completely flat and undecorated. On the obverse the terminal is bi-faceted and features two prominent protruding 'eyes'. The terminal itself terminates in a sub-circular flattened knob which is decorated with two slightly raised curved ridges which demarcate the nostrils. The old break might have occurred at a weak point on the half-round panel. Anglo-Saxon, 5th or early 6th century. Examples of similar terminals can be found illustrated in West (1998, 304).
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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