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Description: | Part of the footplate of a florid Cruciform brooch of Anglo-Saxon type datable to the early sixth century. The surviving portion includes the animal head typical of cruciform brooches, and the human-like mask with staring eyes below that. A detail, perhaps an axe-shaped extension, is also broken off below the mask. The ornament is shown in heavily-modelled relief. The animal has tall staring eyes, as if on stalks. The mask has large, domed brow-ridges over staring pellet eyes with lower lids. The nose is triangular, and the upper lip and jaw are rounded and bifurcate. The mask is flanked on either side by a pair of birds facing upwards and inwards: their beaks are rolled-in just above the temples of the mask. At the top of the fragment, above the animal head, there is evidence that the brooch from which it is derived was repaired in antiquity. A hole of 2.5mm gauge has been drilled in the top left and right corners, in the position corresponding to the animal's ears. One still contains a rivet, of copper alloy gauge 2mm, which has been introduced from the back and beaten over on the front. The rivet is only long enough to have held a thin piece of sheet metal, presumably on the back, where it would bridge the lower and upper parts of the brooch foot. Levelling cuts have also been made along the fractured surface above the head, suggesting that some part of the fractured metal had to be excised to effect a neat join, or else to admit solder or some other adhesive filler. The reverse is plain and flat, but slightly chanelled in the centre. | 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: | 480
570 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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