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Description: | A copper-alloy middle Anglo-Saxon ansate or caterpillar brooch. This brooch has incomplete terminals due to wear and old breaks. It is rectangular in shape with flaring terminal ends and measures 46.2mm in length and 10.6mm in width across the bow and 13.3mm in width across the flaring terminal ends, it is 1mm in thickness.The brooch seems to have been flattened but still has an arched bow and the terminals also slope upwards towards their tips. The front face of the brooch is decorated with 10 transverse rows each consisting of 3 ring and dot motifs. On the back face there is the remains of corroded iron and a silvery grey solder at each terminal, this is all that remains of the attachment device and pin.
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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