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Description: | A copper-alloy early Anglo-Saxon small long brooch, this brooch is missing its upper crescent shaped top knob but is complete apart from that. It measures 58mm in length and 31.8mm in width across the head, 8.2mm in width across the bow and 13mm in width across its terminal.The head is trefoil around a rectangular central panel which is decorated down its long edges with indented crescent shapes. The arms of the trefoil are D-shaped and the upper one is missing due to an old break. The surviving arms have a row of indented crescents along their curved outer edges. The bow has mouldings at its top and bottom forming facted corners, it also has two parallel transverse grooves across its top and bottom and a central longitudinal groove. The foot has a flat panel with four transverse grooves across it, below this there are two transverse mouldings. The terminal flares into a crescent shape and has indented crescents along its edges. On the back face of the central panel there is a central complete integral pin loop with corroded iron within it, this is presumably the remains of an iron pin. The integral catchplate is also complete and projects from the back face of the flat panel of the foot.
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