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Description: | Anglo Saxon cast copper alloy cruciform brooch fragment, 5th or 6th century. The head is broken off. Narrow high arched bow, carinated in front, hollowed on the reverse, (and bent to the right side). Slightly tapering foot with two faint raised collars and animal-head terminal with bulbous eyes and slightly splayed snout. Hemispherical catchplate. Light blue-green patina with large areas of corrosion. Length 56.70mm, width (across bow) 11.04mm, width (across terminal) 6.90mm, thickness c.15mm, weight 8.96g. This slender brooch is similar to a brooch from Ixworth published in MacGregor & Bollick (1993, 'A Summary Catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon Collections', BAR 230) pp96-7, no.12.2, which has a small headplate. Such brooches are early (5th-early 6th century) and uncommon in Britain (see p95). However it is not possible to say for sure what the headplate of this brooch was like. The simplicity of this brooch suggests it is 5th or early 6th century.
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