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Description: | Cruciform brooch of early or mid fifth-century type,copper alloy with a small knob (?possibly faceted) at the head, circumference 5mm, which extends a total of 8mm above the headplate, which is c.8mm square. Behind the headplate is the single arched loop for the pin attachment, which projects 6mm from the back of the plate and the ball attachment over a length of 9mm. Iron residues suggest that there was once an iron pin. The bow reaches a height of 12mm. The foot is not in the same plane as the head but angled down by about forty degrees. The breadth of the bow is 9mm and it is domed in section: it has a slightly waisted connection with the headplate, across which are two lateral engraved lines. Were the bow joins the footplate, the dome of the section becomes slightly ridged, and the bow itself narrows to 6mm breadth where it flattens to join the foot stem. Here are two lateral lines. The footplate tapers from 6mm near the bow to 5mm lower down, before expanding again. A plain section of 4mm ends in a pair of transverse grooves, then 7mm to another pair of grooves, then 4mm to the grooves, then 9mm to a groove near the present tip of the foot. This, however, may not be the true terminal of the footplate. The pin catchplate is a well-formed tapering tube open on one side, but rolled over the top, and seemingly in-cast. The tail of this tube, which reinforces the footplate, covers its full existing length. There should probably be a primitive animal-head device at the tip of the foot, which has apparently broken off. This is a classic cruciform brooch of the earliest type found in post-Roman England, and is one of a growing number illustrating that stage of East Anglian settlement. | 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: | 425
475 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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