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Description: | Early cruciform brooch of type with high bow and lacking loose knobs fitted to the headplate. Such brooches are markers for the early phases of Anglian settlement in East Anglia. This example has an unornamented full-round knob at the head, 8mm diameter, which has a sharp angle below the belly of the knob making it like a cap or dome, below which it waists abruptly to 3mm and then widens out again to 6.5mm, a dimension which remains fully in the round. The headplate below the knob forms a square, 9mm high by 8.5mm broad and 2mm thick, and is chamfered along the sides. On its back there is a single bronze lug in the centre, of domed or arched shape, to hold the pin: much iron residue adheres. The bow itself spans 22mm, is 9mm wide at its widest point (the centre) and 3.5mm high in domed profile. This section is formed by the two outer edges or sides being chamfered (with knuckles close to top and bottom, and with a central longitudinal channel with slighter incised grooves on either side. The foot of the brooch is 30mm long overall: Its terminal is shown by the usual animal's head, here strongly characterised with very flared and bulbous nostrils separated by a strong central partition or nasal ridge. The eyes protrude like small bosses, and there is a triple banded collar at the neck. The stem between this collar and the base of the bow measures 11mm, is chamfered on either side forming a three-facetted bar, and holds on the reverse the catchplate for the pin. This takes the form of a sheet rolled over, and is open at the tip (Anglo-Saxon fashion). On the whole this is an extremely well-preserved and fine example of this early type of brooch. In West's typology, the form most nearly parallels Fig 145.2 (Ixworth), though the animal head of the present example is more developed and more similar to Fig 145.27 (Lakenheath). | 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
560 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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