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Description: | Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch, 6th century, incomplete. Integrally cast top-knob, side-knobs missing. Trapezoidal head-plate with a double row of punched dots on either side. The left wing is incomplete, but it appears to have been trapezoidal and has a double row of punched dots along the only surviving original edge, at its base. The right wing is broken off. Arched bow with faceted corners, carinated in front and hollow on the reverse. There is a row of punched oblique lines with incised line borders at the top and the bottom of the bow. Trapezoidal plate at the top of the foot, the upper part of which is decorated with rectangle of double punched dots, the bottom row of which runs over double incised lines. Two wide (width c.4.5mm) raised transverse mouldings at the junction with the animal-head terminal. The animal head terminal has prominent eyes and moulded eyebrows with a faint row of punched annulets between the eyes, V-shaped double incision on the nose, circular scrolled nostrils and a triangular extension (corners now broken off) which is decorated with a double incision towards the top, and again across the bottom, and a row of punched dots at the bottom. Single lug to take the pin on the reverse, with part of the iron spring surviving on either side; complete catchplate at the top of the foot. Fine blue-green patina. Length 145.31mm, width across (incomplete) head 38.80mm, width across bow 20.91mm, width across foot 26.07mm, thickness c.26mm, weight 65.01g. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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