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Description: | Early Saxon Group IVb(a) cruciform brooch, detachable side knobs and two corners of headplate missing (breaks not recent). Cast-in-one top knob, waisted and with two pairs of transverse engraved lines. It has a hollow reverse and is surmounted by an integral human mask with heavy eyebrows, protruding eyes, curling moustache and triangular nose. One flaring wing is bent at the top corner. Between the wings a raised panel is decorated down the sides with rows of stamped inverted V-shapes, each containing short vertical line and surmounted by an annulet. In the centre of the panel a large ring-and-dot, probably formed by inlaid niello, lies flush with the surface and is a slightly darker green than the surrounding surface. The hollow-backed bow has a broad median band and a rectangular panel forming facets at top and base. The footplate begins with a pair of scrolled lappets flanking a flat trapezoidal panel decorated down the sides with the same inverted V and annulet stamps. Below these two transverse engraved lines above two short side chamfers, then half-round moulding consisting of a pair of transverse rib mouldings, both with two engraved lines. The brow or forehead of the animal head is cleft by a wide moulded vertical groove or furrow. A median arris runs down from the brow between a pair of protruding eyes to a rectangular moulding between the scrolled nostrils. The spatulate terminal may carry further stamped decoration, but the surface is covered in corrosion products. On reverse cracked single pin lug with adjacent traces of iron from spring. Complete but cracked catchplate is stained by azurite on both faces near the base. Length 147mm (gently curved longitudinally). Width across headplate 66mm. Weighing 113.7g.
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