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Description: | This foot of a cruciform brooch shows a strongly characterized animal-head. A flat portion of the plate, with part of the catchplate for the pin on its underside, is traversed laterally by two straight barsa or framing grooves, neatly shown, with a row of tiny ring-and-dots above them. A short flat zone below has faceted angles at its sides. The surface is then raised into domed relief, first by two transverse grooved bands with a scooped channel between. This forms the collar of the beast's head, which swells over the cranium to a V-shaped pair of brow-ridges, incised with grooves and decorated with very tiny stamps, and converging on the central ridge of the snout. The eyes are prominent and bossed on either side. The animal head is hollow-cast beneath, and the tip of the snout is missing. The whole is characteristic of a late 5th or very early 6th century form of the cruciform brooch. | 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: | 475
575 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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