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Description: | A fragment of a copper-alloy early Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch. The top knop and the head plate of this brooch survive, measuring 27.4mm in total length and 11.6mm in width. The knop is large, it is waisted after its base and has a globular terminal. It has been cast in one with the rest of the brooch fragment and measures 14.3mm in height, 9mm in width and 9.8mm in thickness. The headplate appears to be complete and to consist only of a central panel, it does not seem to ever have had wings (and therefore side knops). It is flat and narrow, measuring 14.5mm in length and 11.6mm in width. It is decorated with two pairs of two transverse grooves at its top and base. On the back face of the head plate the remains of an integral copper-alloy pin loop can be seen.
Due to its full round solid knop and narrow headplate this brooch fragment is likely to be one of the oldest types of cruciform brooches, which have a headplate of the same width, or slightly wider, than the bow (although the bow is missing in this example the old break in this area indicates that it would have been the same width as the narrow head plate). This brooch is therefore likely to date to the 5th century. | 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: | 410
500 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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