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Description: | Great square-headed brooch of Hines's Group XII (Hines 1997). These brooches date from the later 5th and 6th centuries. The headplate and lower portion of the footplate remains, presumably of the same brooch. Both are made from cast copper alloy and the decoration has been probably chip carved.
The headplate inner panel is decorated with a central rectangular motif. This motif consists of two concentric rectangular frames. Within the internal frame there are three, central vertical ridges with a a small rectangular platform either side. This platform also has a thick high-relief frame. Bordering the rectangular motif there are lentoid motifs att he upper corners, but not the lower ones. Otherwise the motif surrounding the rectangular motif is an irregular interlacing. The outer edge of the inner panel is defined on three sides, not the lower edge, by a thick high-relief border.
The head plate second panel also has lentoid motifs at the upper corners. Between these motifs, on the upper and side edges the panel is decorated with a wavy edge, and within each 'wave' there is a large pellet and sub-crescentic shape. Again this second panel is framed by a high-relief thick border.
There is only a glimpse of the headplate frame on the upper edge, but the motifs are not distinguishable. The edges of the headplate are all heavily abraded, the damage is not too recent, as no fresh bronze is visible, but the patina on the edges is not the same as the patina on the surfaces of the brooch.
Only a small portion of the bow remains. The bow starts with a high-relief inverted triangular shape which protrudes from the lower edge of the inner panel and tapers on the bow. The bow is decorated with vertical linear grooves. On two of the columns the irregular interwoven motif is visible. The broken edge of the bow is not recent. There are also two copper alloy rivets towards the broken edge ofthe brooch. Perhaps this break is not recent and was repair in antiquity. The rivets are broken on the reverse.
The decorated surfaces of the headplate and bow also has gilding remaining.
The reverse of the headplate is undecorated. Above the bow there are two vertical lugs which has a block of iron and iron corrosion between them.
The headplate measures 58.7mm across and 54.1mm long. It weighs 33.22g.
The footplate terminal lobe remains. This is decorated with a circular plate, which is slightly domed in profile. The decoration has a rectangular vertical strip, which is decorated with two fine linear vertical grooves. Framing this strip and the circular platform is the irregular inter-woven motif. There are also traces of gilding. The edges of the terminal are possibly abraded, but the edges of the terminal taper slightly towards the edge. However a similar example to this brooch in Hines (1997) from Norton, Northamptonshire has a secondary border around the inter-woven motif.
The footplate measures 33.6mm long and 20.3mm wide. It weighs 7.51g. | 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
600 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Angie Bolton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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