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Description: | Fragment of early Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy brooch. The brooch vaguely resembles the top half of a human figure, with rounded head, no neck, outstretched arms, right arm broken off, left arm tapering, curving upwards and round to the back of the head, the lower half of torso flaring out towards the hips, where the object is broken. Much of the original surface is missing, but the right side of the brooch appears to bear curvilinear decoration, and there is a longitudinal groove down the centre of the figure. There is a linear projecting lug on the reverse, which is the remains of a broken pin hinge, set at the back of the base of the 'head' and upper 'shoulders'. Light-mid greenish-brown patina, light powdery green corrosion. Length 20.94mm, width 22.62mm, thickness including pin hinge 6.28mm, thickness not including hinge c. c.2.2mm ('body') - 3.6mm ('head'), weight 3.85g.
From the style of the pin hinge, this must be a fragment of an early Anglo-Saxon brooch. It is perhaps most likely to be a fragment of an openwork circular brooch; there are some complete examples illustrated in Macgregor and Bolick 1993, p. 69. It is most likely to date to the fifth or sixth centuries. | 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
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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