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Description: | A copper-alloy early Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch foot fragment. Only the terminal of the foot of this brooch survives, the rest is missing due to an old break. The terminal would have depicted a horse's head and on the surviving fragment large scrolled nostrils can be seen above a crescent shaped muzzle. It is 41.62mm in width and 26.45mm in surviving height. On the front face the scrolled nostrils are delineated with deep spiralling grooves, and each nostril has a central circular perforation, measuring about 5mm in diameter. The crescent-shaped muzzle has the remains of an applied white metal (probably silver) sheet attached to it. Other traces of white-metal coating can also be seen on the flat back face of this terminal fragment. The terminal of this cruciform brooch is very similar to one discovered at Ixworth, although that was complete (West 70, 219, fig 101, no 1). | 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 | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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