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Description: | Early medieval copper alloy cruciform brooch fragment, animal head terminal only, 6th century. Narrow triple collar moulding at the junction of the (missing) upper part of the foot with the terminal. Recessed prominent bulbous eyes with two longitudinal beaded lines defining the junction between the scrolled nostrils and the lunate extension, which has a central ring and dot and damaged corners. Flat reverse. None of the catchplate survives on this fragment of the brooch. Some fine grey-green patina, much patchy light/yellow/blue green corrosion. Length 53.21mm, width 23.30mm, thickness 5.3mm, weight 13.19g.
For brooches with similar, although not identical terminals see MacGregor & Bollick 1993 ('Summary Catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon Collections', Oxford) p102, no.12.17 and West 1998 ('Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Material from Suffolk' East Anglian Archaeology 84) p14 & p128 no.12.8; and p26 & p140 no.24.9. | 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: | 500
600 | 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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