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Description: | A worn fragment of an early-medieval cast copper-alloy cruciform brooch. The fragment consists of the horse-head terminal typical of this type of brooch. Its reverse is completely flat and undecorated. On the obverse the terminal is bi-faceted and features two prominent protruding 'eyes'. The terminal itself terminates in a sub-circular flattened knob which is decorated with two slightly raised curved ridges which demarcate the nostrils. The old break might have occurred at a weak point on the half-round panel. Anglo-Saxon, 5th or early 6th century. Examples of similar terminals can be found illustrated in West (1998, 304). | 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: | 450
525 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Robert Webley | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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