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Description: | Early Medieval Anglo Saxon cast copper alloy cruciform brooch fragment, head and upper part of bow only; 5th-6th century. This has been heat affected, presumably through inclusion in a cremation. Integrally cast top-knob, semi-circular in section, domed in plan, with moulded collar. Integrally cast side-knobs, the left one missing, the right one distorted through heat. Head plate appears to be trapezoidal and undecorated, with rectangular wings; again this is distorted through heat and there is a fragment of another copper alloy plate (thickness c.2.5mm, perhaps another brooch fragment?) fused to the upper part of the head-plate. The arched bow is distorted through heat, but appears to have chamfered corners at the junction with the head plate; it is broken at an angle at about its mid-point. On the reverse is the remains of the iron spring and pin (the pin extends for 17mm down the head from the top of the left side of the spring); there is also a small lump of yellow glass (amoorphous ,c.4mmx3.5mm) with very fine bubbles in it fused to the head-plate at the top of the spring - perhaps the remains of a glass bead. Light blue-green patina with some sooting, particularly on the right side-knob, & some very pale green pitted areas, particularly on the bow. Length (incomplete) 44.9mm, width (incomplete) 38.6mm, thickness 12.2mm, widthj of spring 12mm, weight 20.85g.
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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