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Description: | Cruciform brooch made from copper alloy, now missing its foot (fresh break). The headplate is small and pentagonal, having a straight lower edge but cutaway corners on the upper edge. It is decorated with a double-strand engraved saltire and on the reverse has a single pin bar lug with extensive traces of the iron spring. The upper knob is full-round and has a double collar below; the side knobs are simple and flattish with no collars. None of the knobs is particularly well made. The bow is narrow (only 6 mm wide) but quite long and highly arched. It begins with an undecorated flat panel, and then is facetted to give a triangular cross-section. The reverse of the bow is not smoothly curved but is instead cut into a number of transverse facets. At the bottom of the bow is another flat panel, this time decorated with two transverse grooves (the upper one rather oblique), a pair of edge nicks, and then another transverse groove above the break. On the reverse, the top of a V-shaped groove heralds the start of the catchplate. The head is 19 mm wide and the total surviving length is 36 mm. Dark brown patina. The high arch of the bow means that the total thickness (including pin bar lug) is 16 mm. The full-round top knob, plus the high arch of the bow indicates that this brooch was made in the fifth century AD, so it belongs early in the early Anglo-Saxon period. | 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
500 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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