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Description: | Anglo Saxon cast copper alloy small long brooch fragment, 5th-6th century. Sub-rectangular head with damage to the corners. Faint line border on either side of the head and ring and dot motif at the centre. There are three transverse incised lines at the top of bow where it meets the head, then a dot with very faint ring around, then double transverse lines. There is another pair of double tranverse lines at the bottom of the arched bow. The foot is missing. The pin hinge at the back of the head is broken, with traces of an iron pin. Fine brown green patina where the original surface survives. Length 38.72mm, width (head) 20.40mm, width (top of bow) 11.64mm, thickness (just head & catchplate) 4.56mm, thickness (bow & head & catchplate) 9.44mm, weight 6.16g. | 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: | 420
550 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Rachel Atherton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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