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Description: | Copper alloy Anglo-Saxon Cruciform Long brooch. The head has an integral round top knob (D. 5.6mm) beneath which is a short narrow circular-section element above an oval collar which is attached to the headplate. The central panel of the headplate is rectangular (L. 13.9mm. W. 14.2mm. Th. 2.2mm), and there are breaks and damage to either side, perhaps where the wings were originally attached. At the top and bottom of the bow the bow is rectangular in section, however the main, central part of the bow is D-shaped in section, with a convex upper surface and flat reverse (L. 20.7mm. W. 7.9mm. Th. 3.4mm). There are two incised parallel lateral grooves at the bottom of the rectangular-sectioned element at the top of the bow, and at least one lateral incised groove in the centre of the rectangular-sectioned element at the bottom of the bow. The foot of the bow has a rectangular-sectioned element with a narrowed and thinner section in the centre (L. 16mm. W. 6.8mm. Th. 3.4mm). The foot then expands on both sides, continues for a short distance and is then broken off (L. 6.3mm. W. 11.9mm. Th. 1.7mm). There is incised decoration on the upper surface of the foot in the form of three pairs of parallel lateral grooves, one closely spaced pair is near to the bow, the second pair is more widely spaced and is just before the foot expands, and the third closely spaced pair is just before the foot is broken off. On the reverse of the central panel at the head of the brooch are the remains of a single pin lug and the remains of the catchplate survive on the reverse of the foot. Patchy mid-green patina. | 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: | 401
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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