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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy early Anglo-Saxon probable small long type brooch. Only the foot of this brooch survives the rest is missing evidence of a very old break now worn can be seen in the centre of the upper edge of the foot. The surviving foot is unusual, it is flat and measures 34.5mm in length. It has a triangular upper part, 19mm in width, which tapers until it joins the roughly oval terminal knop, 14mm in width and 10mm in length. The front face of the foot is decorated with ring and dot motifs, presumably arranged at randomn. On the back face of the foot the complete catch plate can be seen.
This unusual foot is most likely to be from a small long brooch, a similar terminal on a small long with a square head has been discovered at Tuddenham St Mary, Suffolk (West 1998 248, fig 130, no 4). Another similar foot, again on a square headed small long brooch, with a central ring and dot motif, has also been discovered at Barrington, Cambridgeshire (McGregor and Bolick1993, 125, no 15.1). | 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
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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