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Description: | A cast bronze great square-headed brooch of the 6th century, Hines group XIV.The brooch is largely complete, but the footplate terminal lobe is separate and there is no pin.The headplate frame is a simple beaded border and the second panel and inner panel have style I decoration. The panels and frame are separated by undecorated borders.The bow is simply decorated with 5 grooves down its length, creating 6 raised ridges.The footplate has two circular sidelobes and a circular terminal lobe beneath the upper borders. The upper borders have pseudo-zoomorphic animal head terminals turning in toward the foot, and grooved, circumbscribed decoration emerged behind the animal heads and follows the shape of the foot occupying the inner panel frames. The inner foot panels are undecorated triangles. A simple, unraised, undecorated footplate bar runs the length of the foot onto the terminal lobe. The terminal lobe has circumscribed bands of beading of different sizes. One band of similar beading is seen on each of the side lobes.The underside is undecorated and more heavily corroded. The centre of the headplate has two semicircular lugs which retain the iron spring of the pin. There is also an element of another object corroded onto on side of the underside of the headplate. The corrosion obscures identification, but it appears to be a possible repair to reinforce a cracked headplate corner. It is noteworthy that the side of the headplate with the possible repair is the same side with a section missing.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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