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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy 6th century AD, Anglo-Saxon supporting arm brooch with lappets.
The brooch has a wide rectangular shaped head plate, which is decorated with a raised rim at the top and two pairs of incised parallel lines. The edges of the head have finished with the supporting-arms (creating a box shape to house the pin mechanism). Each side has had a hole punched through it and the remains of the end of the copper alloy pin survives in situ. The rest of the pin mechanism does not survive.
The head plate tapers to the bow. The bow is arched and thin, but undecorated.
The foot then tapers out again. It is decorated with a moulded ridge, a set of parallel incised lines and then it finally terminates with a raised ridge along the base of the foot.
The catch plate also survives, but is undecorated. It is positioned on the reverse of the foot. The reverse of the brooch is undecorated. The surface of the metal is slightly pitted.
This type of brooch dates from the 5th century AD.
This brooch is similar to examples in Hattatt, 2000, p377, Fig: 236. | 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: | 425
475 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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