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Description: | Early Saxon Group IVb(b) cruciform brooch in three pieces, non-recent breaks across the lower bow and the footplate, detachable side knobs missing. Corners of head damaged in antiquity. Cast-in-one top knob, waisted and with two pairs of fine transverse moulded grooves. It has a hollow reverse and is surmounted by an incomplete spatulate extension. The flaring wings are decorated with grooves along the top and basal edges. The slightly raised panel is decorated down the sides with concentric inverted V-shaped stamps. The hollow backed bow has a pair of median grooves and a rectangular panel forming facets at top and base, both decorated with two pairs of transverse grooves and small side notches. The footplate begins with a pair of scrolled lappets flanking a flat trapezoidal panel decorated at the base with a pair of transverse grooves above two short side chamfers. The half-round comprises a very broad transverse rib between pairs of transverse grooves. The brow or forehead of the animal head is cleft by a V-section groove or furrow. A median arris flanked by lines of punched annulets runs down from the brow between a pair of protruding eyes to a rectangular moulding between the scrolled nostrils. The sides of the spatulate terminal are decorated with the same inverted V-shaped stamps, scarcely visible beneath surface corrosion products. On reverse single pin lug with remains of iron spring. Small part of catchplate flap missing (recent break). Length 139mm. Width across headplate 43mm. Weighing 56.6g. | 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: | 400
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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