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Description: | Early Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch in two parts; zoomorphic end found 1996, bow & top found September 1999. Total weight 14.9g. Top 41.22mm x 26.68mm, bottom 42.31mm x 12.03mm. The two parts connect. Head plate with slightly concave sides, terminal knob missing, decorated with 4 columns of 'expanded' ring & dot motifs (each of these is made up of a pair of double-crescent stamps). Mineralised organic encrusting remains on spring. Broken at bottom of bow. Terminal head with 2 incised transverse lines above 3 moulded 'collars', small protruding eyes, nostrils begin to flare but are missing, incised chevrons. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 475
600 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Rhiannon Harte | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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