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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy footplate of an early Anglo-Saxon square headed brooch. Just over half of this footplate survives, the upper boarders and the terminal lobe are missing, one side lobe is missing, as is its inner pannel plate and the other side lobe is incomplete. The surviving footplate measures 47.4mm in surviving length and 39.1mm in surviving width at its widest point. The footplate has a strong central longitudinal bar with longitudinal grooves to either side of this. The footplate inner panels have two triangular shaped grooves, one inside the other and a central triangular indentation. The footplate inner pannel frame, where it survives, is decorated with a continual C-shaped motif each one with a dot in its centre. A fragment of one of the side lobes survives, it is most likely to have been circular in shape when complete and traces of a white metal coating can be seen on the lobe. Elsewhere on the front face of this footplate traces of gilding survive. Traces of some sort of open work projecting lower boarder can be seen in the form of small incomplete rounded projections. This footplate is similar to one from Ipswich 016 (West 1998, fig 62, 1) this footplate is also likely to fit into Hines Group XV1 (Hines 1997, 118-133, fig 65 (a)). This is the largest group of Anglo-Saxon square headed brooches and found in East Anglia. | 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: | 400
600 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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