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Description: | Bow and upper part of foot from a copper-alloy long brooch, probably a cruciform. The bow is broken at the top (recent break) at the junction with the head. It begins with a flat panel which is decorated with a transverse groove above a pair of transverse grooves each with punched dots along them, with a beaded line in between. The dots have not been punched very accurately. Below this, the main part of the bow is 'facetted', i.e. D-shaped in section with an almost-flat reverse. There is a longitudinal line of dots down the centre of the bow. At the bottom of the bow is another flat panel, decorated with a pair of transverse grooves and two more wayward lines of punched dots overlying them. The foot begins with a flat panel which has a faint line down either side, but no other decoration. There are then two bold transverse mouldings each with four grooves. The break below these seems a little more worn than the upper break. On the reverse of the foot is a damaged catchplate, and an extremely rough bubbly surface. The bubbles seem too substantial to have been caused by corrosion alone and it seems possible that the reverse of this brooch was never cleaned up after casting. Width of bow at top, 12 mm; width of foot at bottom, 8.5 mm. Surviving length 40 mm. | 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: | 450
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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