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Description: | Early medieval cast copper alloy small long brooch, 5th-6th century. Rectangular head plate with two vertical grooves dividing the plate into three fields. Arched bow, carinated in front, concave on the reverse, with mouldings at top and bottom forming faceted corners. Lozenge shaped foot with the bottom tip broken off, so cannot be certain what the terminal would have been. The catchplate on the the back of the foot is complete. There is no perforation on the hinge plate on the back of the head plate. This may never have been pierced, implying that this brooch is unfinished. However it is possible that the top of the hinge is broken off - it is slightly bent over and one corner is certainly damaged - although it would have been very long if this is so. The current length of the hinge is 8mm. Length 52.04mm, width (head) 29.94mm, width (lozenge foot) 20.98mm, thickness (head-hinge) 10.28mm, thickness (foot-catchplate) 8.24mm, weight 12.12g. Similarly shaped brooches with lozenge shaped feet, are published in MacGregor & Bollick ("A Summary Catalogue of the Anglo Saxon Collections" (Asmolean Museum), 1993, Oxford) p125-7, no.s 15.3 & 15.9 & 15.6, the latter having a T shaped terminal, the former two having simple pointed terminals. | 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: | 410
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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