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Description: | Fragment of Anglo-Saxon square headed brooch. This fragment represents one of a pair of side lobes typically found on the brooch. The fragment is tongue shaped in plan and flat in section and is 30.18mm long, 23.6mm wide and 3.9mm thick. The top face of the fragment is abraded, but it appears to be decorated with five concentric arches of raised beaded lines. Within the inner most arch is a raised moulding, probably representing a facemask. The mask has suboval depressions for ?eyes? and possibly a long down turned moustache. The top face of the fragment retains a fair amount of gilding, but is otherwise abraded and dark brown in colour with patches of bright green corrosion. The reverse of the lobe is plain, without traces of gilding. The original surface survives with a dark green patina, but where it is abraded, shows as light green or, notably at the edges, dark brown. The break edge is worn, suggesting damage occurred in antiquity. A number of square headed brooches are illustrated in MacGregor and Bolick, 1993, A Summary catalogue of the Anglo Saxon collections the Ashmolean museum, pages 111-120. They note that square headed brooches with lobes of this kind were introduced to England from Scandinavia just before AD 500 and had waned in popularity by AD575.
This object was primarily identified from an image. Recording conditions did not allow for a weight to be taken. | 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: | 500
575 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Caroline McDonald | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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