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Description: | A copper-alloy Radiate-head type brooch of late 6th century AD date. This brooch was found in association with two other brooches (see PAS record nos. BH-588FD1 and BH-58CED5) 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.This style of brooch is thought to have evolved from certain round-headed brooches of south Russia, the style spreading north of the Roman empire to the Teutonic areas, in the Merovingian period (R. Hattatt; 1987; pp. 323-4). A few parallels are known from England (see Hattatt; pp. 324; no. 1319); they are probably all continental imports and are by no means a common find in this country.The headplate is semi-circular, has a series of moulded grooved lines of similar shape and three integral head-knobs - one at each of the bottom two corners and the other at the centre of the rounded upper edge. The bow is short, flat and has a sub-circular decorative moulding. A wide transverse band, with three moulded horizontal ridges, separates the bow from the foot section. A roughly lozenge-shaped plate, decorated with two parallel bands of inverted triangular punch marks, forms the upper part of the foot section; the terminal consists of a sub-circular projection with an outer ring of punched marks, inner indented loop and central punched dot.The hinge is located at the centre of the reverse of the headplate and consists of a right-angled lug (now bent) with a rounded top edge and central hole. The pin is missing, as is the catchplate, which was presumably originally joined to the reverse of the foot section.The surface of the piece has been coated with an unidentified black substance. The brooch measures 59.8mm high, by 27.9mm wide and 7mm deep; the weight is 7.07g.
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