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Description: | A copper-alloy fragment of the foot of an early Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch, the lower part of the foot and the upper part of the horse head terminal now survives, the rest of this brooch is missing due to old breaks. This fragment measures 35.3mm in length and c13mm in width and is roughly rectangular in shape.
The foot has two transverse ridges across it. The horse head terminal has a rounded front face and a transverse V-shaped brow ridge. There is central longitudinal ridge running down the terminal and two parallel globular projecting eyes.
On the back of the foot a longitudinal ridge is all that now remains of the catch plate, the reverse of the horse head terminal is concave.
Both faces of this fragment have a black patina in places perhaps implying that this fragment has been exposed to a fire and even possibly cremated with its owner, however, it is too worn at either end to be sure whether the incomplete terminals were created by very worn uneven breaks or due to heat distortion. | 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
570 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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