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Description: | Almost complete small-long brooch. Rectangular head-plate with fifteen circular perforations along sides and top edge, bordered along the inside by a pair of closely spaced incised grooves. The perforations are slightly countersunk in front and are cast, although appearing to have been drilled. D-section bow with side facets between one fine transverse groove at top and two at base. Large lappets, each with three circular perforations similar to those on the head-plate. The foot, with scalloped edges, is in the form of a very abstracted stylised horse-head. On reverse an incomplete single pin bar lug part covered with iron corrosion, and an intact catch-plate containing a small amount of corrosion which may be the remains of the pin. Breaks through perforations on one corner of the head-plate and on the lappets are not ancient. A similar brooch was excavated by T. C. Lethbridge at Holywell Row, Mildenhall, Suffolk (Lethbridge 1931, 34, plate IID). This was described by Leeds (1945, 42-3, fig 27) as "the curious piece from grave 69". Leeds noted that the brooch could well have ended at the lappets which can be seen as the normal splayed foot of small-long brooches. The foot of this piece, although not very close to the Holywell Row example, is an equally odd appendage or addition, described by Leeds as an "awkward work [which] can only be regarded as freak". 6th century. | 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: | 500
600 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Katie Hinds | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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