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Description: | An unusual copper-alloy possibly late Anglo-Saxon brooch for which no parallel could be found. It is cross-shaped and open work measuring 21.5mm by 22mm in size externally and 13.5mm by c12mm internally.
The inner edges of the cross are straight and the outer ones curvilinear, each terminal of each arm of the cross has transverse projections on either side of it. The back face is flat with file marks visible. The front face has a square recess in the centre of each terminal of each arm of the cross. One of these recesses has a mass of corroded iron adhering to and around it. There is also a slight trace of iron on the recess opposing this one. This suggests that the corroded iron may be the remains of an iron pin, the loop of which was attached to one recess and the tip of which rested in another.
It is therefore most likely that this object was originally a brooch and is most likely to be of late Anglo-Saxon date although no parallel can be found as many brooch forms appear in that period, not all of which have been published. | 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: | 850
1066 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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