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Description: | Bow and foot from an unusual long brooch, probably a small-long but possibly a cruciform brooch . The bow starts with a fairly fresh break at the upper flat panel; there is a trace of iron corrosion on the reverse here. The flat panel is decorated with two transverse grooves and below this tapers to a point. Below this the bow is facetted, with a double row of punched dots down the centre. The lower flat panel is the same pentagonal shape as the upper one, but does not have the double transverse groove. Below the bow is a flat panel ending in a double transverse groove, then a panel with bevelled edges. Next comes a raised panel with a single transverse groove above a broad transverse concavity, then a double transverse groove beneath. This raised panel would, on a cruciform brooch, herald the start of the horse-head terminal. On this brooch there is instead a short panel with very slightly bevelled edges, both angles punched with a vertical row of four ring-and-dot motifs. This runs down to a terminal consisting of a sub-square or sub-rectangular bar set transversely across the foot; the bar is thicker than the rest of the foot and protrudes above it, the reverse being flat. Above the ring-and-dot panel, on the reverse, is a groove filled with iron corrosion. The centre of this groove extends onto the front of the foot as a narrow crack. It is in the right place for a catchplate - the iron would normally be supposed to be from the pin - but there isn't any trace of a surviving catchplate and it seems unlikely that a simple groove could act as one. Did the catchplate break, get rubbed down, and a replacement iron catchplate get let into a groove??? 8 mm wide at the upper break, 6 mm wide at the ring-and-dot panel, 12 mm wide at the terminal bar. | 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: | 410
600 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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