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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy early Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch. Part of the head and the bow of this brooch survives, the rest is missing due to old breaks, which are now worn.
The central panel and fragments of the wings of the head plate survive, measuring 37.8mm in width and 26.5mm in height. No side knops survive, they may have been detachable, and the area where the top knop would have been is now missing. The central panel is slightly raised from the wings and in its centre there is an indented ring-and-dot motif (c7mm in diameter). Where the head plate joins the bow there are two transverse grooves. The bow measures 28.6mm in surviving length and 22.5mm in width. There is a raised central rectangular panel, 8.5mm in width and 7.3mm in height). On the back face of the head plate there is the remains of a pin loop. This brooch is not only incomplete but also distorted due to heat damage, especially along the edges of the wings and the incomplete end of the bow. This implies that it was originally deposited as part of an early Anglo-Saxon cremation it was also discovered in association with several other early Anglo-Saxon brooches and 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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