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Description: | A fragment of a small Early Medieval copper-alloy cruciform brooch. Length: 22.1mm; width: 14.2mm; thickness: 3.2mm; mass: 3.1g. The fragment consists of a zoomorphic (horse-head) terminal from the foot of a brooch. The fragment has a broken edge at the top, very slightly concave edges at the sides, and a sub-oval extension at the bottom. The reverse of the fragment is flat and undecorated, but the front is in relief, decorated with ridges and grooves. There are ridges defining the eyebrows, a ridge down the snout/nose, and a series of grooves forming nested V shapes at the base. The upper portion has a plano-convex section. The snout/nose portion has a triangular section. The extension at the base has a plano-convex section. The fragment has a light green slightly pitted surface, which also appears to cover the broken edge - this is not a recent break. The horse-head terminal is feature of cruciform brooches (Geake, "Finds Recording Guide", 2001, p21). Cruciform brooches date from the fifth to sixth centuries AD (Geake, ibid.). However, some diagnostic features, particularly on the head are missing from this example, complicating closer dating.
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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