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Description: | An incomplete and worn copper-alloy early Anglo-Saxon small-long brooch. The head and bow are incomplete and the foot is missing, due to old breaks. This brooch measures 41.63mm in surviving length. The head is rectangular in shape, 21.48mm in length and 22.68mm in width. It has three surviving circular holes along its upper edge and there are the remains of other incomplete holes along the two vertical edges. There is a double grooved border delimiting the central panel with double crescent-shaped indentations running along its inner edges. On the back face of the head, at its base, there is a central integral pin loop with the corroded iron remains of a pin bar within it.There are transverse grooves where the head joins the bow, which is 7.8mm in width and 23.47mm in surviving length. It is faceted, with a flattened central longitudinal ridge which is decorated with back-to-back double crescent-shaped grooves running along each longitudinal edge. There is a worn circular flat boss 12mm in diameter c10.8mm down the bow, then the bow continues as above at a width of 7.3mm beneath this boss before terminating at an old break. A similarly shaped but more complete brooch can be seen at SWYOR-C3BF97.
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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