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Description: | A copper-alloy cruciform brooch, 61mm in length and 27mm in width. The top knop is worn and flat and appears to have been cast, the central panel, wings and side knobs also survive, although active corrosion is visible on them, the side knobs are also flat. There is a plate with three transverse grooves before the bow. The bow is convex and 13mm in length and 9mm in width. Beneath the flat panel the half-round panel has two pairs of grooves at its top and base, the brooch terminates in a horse-head terminal which is also worn. The pin bar and catch survive on the back face. This brooch is Anglo-Saxon and most likely to be 6th century in date. | 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 | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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