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Description: | Early medieval copper alloy brooch fragment, 44mm long, 28mm wide and 11mm thick. The object is in fair condition with a green/brown patina and weighs 10.76 grams.The fragment represents the bow of a great square headed brooch which is rectangular in form and semi circular in section. It has a central raised 'spine' containing a circular hollow in its centre. The edges of the bow are also contained by a raised border and the space in between is decorated with a raised abstract decoration. Above the bow is decoration in the form of a stylised human face which has a rectangular fragment of garnet, 4mm x 3mm, to its right, which is bordered by raised rectangles. There are patches of gold present, suggesting that the whole surface was gilded. The reverse contains two semi-circular lugs which have traces of an iron pin present.The bow is similar to the example from Holywell Row II:I:I, plate 16 in Hines, J. 'A corpus of Anglo-Saxon great square-headed brooches'.
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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