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Description: | This fragment of small square headed Anglo Saxon brooch is made in copper alloy with traces of gilding visible. What remains is the bow and the footplate, with the head of the brooch now missing, having been broken off in antiquity. The bow is rectangular in plan, flat behind and is probably incomplete. It has what is presumed to be an old bend where it joins the footplate. The footplate is wider than the bow and subrectangular in plan, tapering towards the terminal, which is now missing. There are the remains of two lobes in the upper angles of the footplate and the reverse of the footplate carries the pin catch, mostly intact. The bow is decorated with a raised line that continues onto the footplate where it encloses a lozenge shape.
It weighs 3.09g, has a length of 22mm and a width of 14mm. It is similar to a number of examples in MacGregor and Bolick 1993, A Summary catalogue of the Anglo Saxon Collections (non-ferrous metal) in the Ashmolean, BAR series 230, but see especially page 123, number 14.7 for the closest, though not absolute, parallel. | 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: | 470
600 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Caroline McDonald | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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