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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy equal-armed brooch of Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) date (c. AD 450 - c. AD 550). Length: 38.9mm; width: 15.6mm and 8.3mm thick. Weight: 4.46g.Each end of the brooch and also part of the catch-plate are missing due to old ragged breaks. The pin is also missing.Both arms were probably originally of similar shape. However, more of the lower arm has survived and it starts to flare outwards close to the break where there are the remains of a small circular perforation. At each side on the bottom of the head and the top of the leg there is a projecting lobe which is decorated with a ring-and-dot motif. The dots are deep and may originally have contained decorative material. Due to a small break, the motif on the left side of the head is incomplete. The small bow has a length of about 8.0mm, a width of about 5.5mm and a thickness of about 2.4mm. It is convex at the front and flat at the rear.On the rear of the brooch the pin lug has a length of 7.9mm and is D-shaped when viewed from the side. On each side of the lug and also on the back of the arm, in the vicinity of the lug, is a deposit of iron corrosion. There is also a small deposit of iron staining to one side of the catch-plate where the pin tip would have rested. The presence of iron suggests that the pin and its mechanism were made of iron. Only a stub of the catch-plate has survived and this is well off-centre to the right of the longitudinal centre line (when viewing the rear face).The copper alloy part of the brooch has a mid to light green patina overall but is obscured in places by the aforementioned iron corrosion. There is no evidence for burning or melting.Similar brooches have been recorded from Kingston Parish, Kent and Lyminge Parish, Kent. See Portable Antiquities Scheme finds: Kent2479 and Kent-FD97C2.
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