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Description: | A copper-alloy Cruciform type brooch of late 5th century AD date (R. Hattatt; 1987; pp. 303). This brooch was found in association with two other brooches (see PAS record nos. BH-588FD1 and BH-58CFE4) and all are likely to have come from burials. The exact findspot is uncertain, due to the fact that they were discovered in the 1960s, during the construction of a road near Sandy, Bedfordshire, but the group is considered to be of sufficient local and regional importance to merit full recording here.The headplate is rectangular and has two pairs of indented vertical lines at the left hand end (as you look at it); there are also three head-knobs, two of which are integral to the plate; the third (right hand side) has been reapplied to the cut-down plate in antiquity. Each of the head-knobs is decorated with a pair of indented vertical lines on the collar and a second pair on the rounded outer portion. The bow consists of a short hump and has a central vertical ridge with two indented lines. A decorative moulding separates the bow and foot sections; this latter element extends gradually in width towards the rounded bottom edge, has a plain band at the top and is decorated around the outside with a single line of punched marks.The hinge is located at the centre of the reverse side of the headplate; it consists of a single rounded lug with a central hole. The catchplate takes the form of a short vertical protrusion with a rolled top edge and is located at the top of the foot section.The surface of the brooch has been treated with an unidentified black substance. The object measures 78.4mm high, by 37.5mm wide and 17.9mm deep; the weight is 18.59g.
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