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Description: | Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch knob, incomplete copper-alloy and from an early Anglo-Saxon florid cruciform brooch. This side knob has been cast seperately and would have been attached to the wing of the head by means of a pin passing through parallel loops cast on the back face of the knob and the wing. This knob is flattened in section and measures 35.96mm in length and 36.44mm in surviving length. It has a rectangular collar decorated with a panel decorated with parallel grooves. The terminal end of the knob has two opposing crescentic extensions which curve upwards and backwards into two scrolled extensions, with holes through their centres. These incoroporate zoomorphic elements, with large oval eyes. One of these crescentic extensions and its scrolled extension is incomplete due to old breaks. Between the crescentic extensions there is are U-shaped grooves with a vertical band of grooves running through them, which then flares into a spatulate part in the centre of the terminal end. There are traces of gilding on the front face. On the back face in either corner of the rectangular collar there is an integral rivet. Below these in the centre of the rectangular collar there are two parallel incomplete loops, through which a pin would have passed originally to attach this side knob to the wing of the head of the brooch.This side knob is very similar to those attached to a complete florid cruciform from Icklingham, suffolk, which is also cast seperately and has a rectangular collar, its decoration is slightly more elaborate and represents a face-mask with crescentic extensions below this (MacGregor and Bolick 1993, 109-110, no 12.37).
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