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Description: | Cast copper-alloy Cruciform brooch. The top-knob is circular in section and conical in outline, side knobs missing. Small head-plate without wings, with a transverse moulded ridge at the junction with the top-knob. Narrow high-arched bow, carinated in front, flat (solid) behind. The base of the bow has four transverse incised lines. Tapering foot with no ornament. Single hinge with traces of iron corrosion. Pin missing. The intact catch runs to the full length of the foot. Even, pale green patina.
This brooch is an example of the earliest form of Cruciform brooch with no side wings and lacking an animal-head terminal. The distribution of cruciform brooches reveals a dominant Anglian influence, with particular concentrations in East Anglia, the East Midlands and as far north as the Humber basin with outliers beyond.
Cf. Similar examples from Dorchester, Oxfordshire and Ixworth, Suffolk (MacGregor and Bolick 1993, 96 nos. 12.1-12.2) | 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 | Creator: | Sally Worrell | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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