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Description: | Fragment of a bronze small-long brooch of fifth- to sixth-century AD, Anglo-Saxon. The fragment includes the lower part of the bow and the first part of the foot, including a raised and grooved band, with the pin catchplate attached behind. It is possible that the foot expanded into a triangular shape below, but if so this has been broken off. The transvarse band is 4mm broad and bears five grooves. Above this the foot is chamfered over a distance of 6mm, leaving a flat central surface of 3mm over a total width of 5mm. A short distance up the rising arch of the bow are two chamfer-'knuckles' which introduce or terminate a more extreme chamfer on the bow itself, which essentially had a longtitudinal carina. The surviving part of the catchplate is 10mm long and stood 7mm high fram the back of the brooch-foot. All the fractures and damage appear to have been done in antiquity. | 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
550 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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