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Description: | A heavily fire-distorted portion of the footplate of a cruciform brooch of developed or exotic kind. Distortion is such that the entire object has melted into an asymmetrical shape. The remains of the lower part of the foot, which is hollowed longitudinally beneath, show a section about 20mm long and 10mm wide, with a central ridge, and a large protruding eye on either side rising from the upper surface like a pellet. The nose and snout, etc, are snapped off. Above the eyes are two strongly-defined collars as raised lateral ridges, the higher one having a groove along its crest, with a scooped or hollowed area between the two. The channel and two ridges together occupy 8mm length of the lower foot, and mark the junction with the next ornamental zone. That next zone, of about 8mm length again, is severely distorted. It attaches the lower foot to the top end of the footplate, also much distorted but apparently originally some 14mm across, a square panel carrying on its reverse the rolled attachment of the pin catch-plate. At either side of this square panel are extensions which apparently took the form of a bar curving out and down from the top corner of the square, eventually joining a second bar which extended laterally from the lower corner of the same panel. The effect was perhaps that of a downward-turning cresc3ntic extension to the central panel on either side, with a piercing at the centre. This would probably correspond to a zoomorphic feature, and this combined with the eyes and collar of the terminal beast head suggests an attribution of this fragment to a brooch of Group IVai-ii or IVb. However, for fully crescentic side-extensions from a square foot-panel beneath the bow, compare the Ipswich 1907 hybrid brooch, West Corpus Fig 65 p 183. The present brooch has presumably been burnt in a cremation. | 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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