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Description: | A copper-alloy fragment of an early Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch. Only the central panel of the head plate and a fragment of the bow of this brooch survive, the rest is missing due to old breaks, now worn. It is 31.7mm in surviving length and c. 26mm in width.
The top edge of the central panel of the head plate is missing. The surviving part has a border of three longitudinal grooves. In the centre of the panel there is a rectangular recess (10.8mm by 7.5mm in size), with a grooved border. Within this there are four parallel backwards 'S' shapes in relief. These 'S' shapes are unusual and are also seen on the central panel of a cruciform brooch from Stuston, Suffolk (find no. 10439) and from the flat panel of another (or possibly the same) cruciform brooch foot-fragment from Yaxley (see SF-EC7654 ). On the back face of the central panel the remains of the pin loop can be seen.
Where the central panel joins the bow there are two bands of three transverse grooves. The fragment of bow measures 10.8mm in length and 23.5mm in width. It is faceted and has a a longitudinal band of four transverse grooves running down its centre.
This cruciform brooch fragment is slightly distorted, especially along the broken edges of the head plate, this may be due to heat damage. The heat damage indicates that this brooch was burnt in an early Anglo-Saxon cremation,and then deposited with the ashes in a grave. It was discovered in association with other early Anglo-Saxon objects. | 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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