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Description: | Small long CLass A trefoil / miniature radiate / bow brooch
Anglo-Saxon small long brooch with a dull green-yellow patina. Cast in copper alloy, this brooch is complete except for the pin. The headplate is semi-circular / radiate in shape with three projecting circular knops, one on the apex of the curve, and one to each side of the flat base of the headplate, giving it a maximum width of 17mm. The headplate does not accurately match any of Leed's (1945) classification, but is most closely resembles the class A trefoil headplate type. Each of the three knops on the headplate is decorated with a ring-and-dot punchmark, and a fourth ring-and-dot punch is positioned slightly to the right above the bow. The worn bow is 'D' shaped in profile and is decorated with two double lined mouldings at either end where the bow joins the head and footplates. Other than this moulding the bow is undecorated. The lozenge shaped footplate is incomplete as the terminal knop is missing, leaving a worn break. The two corners of the lozenge have a projecting round knop with a ring-and-dot motif. The right knop is heavily worn with only half of the ring-and-dot remaining visible. There is a ring and dot positioned slightly lower than the knops on the main body of the footplate, and another is vertically above, just below the bow. The total length of the surviving sections of the brooch is 38mm. The reverse of the brooch has a significant amount of iron corrosion on the hinge, situated behind the headplate, and on the reverse of the bow. This is probably the remains of an iron pin. The intergral catchplate is situated behind the upper part of the footplate. The brooch weighs 5.2 grams. Small long brooches date from the late 5th century, circa 475AD, until the early 6th century, circa 525AD. | 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: | 475
525 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Andrew Richardson | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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