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Description: | A incomplete copper-alloy early Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch (42mm in surviving length and 22mm in total surviving width). Part of the headplate, the top knop, one side knop and a fragment of the bow survive. The rest of this brooch is now missing due to old breaks which are now worn. This brooch has also been distorted and its incomplete edges melted due to heat damage, the side knop is no longer horizontal but hangs diagonally from the head plate and the bow fragment is an almost unrecognisable globular mass. The top knop is solid and half round, as is the side knop, although this has the remains of a slot on its back face. The head plate measures 15mm in surviving height and 21mm in surviving width. Traces of horizontal mouldings can be seen on the front face.
This brooch was found in association with other early Anglo-Saxon long brooches and other artefacts, the obvious heat damage indicates that it was presumably originally part of an early Anglo-Saxon cremation. | 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: | 500
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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