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Description: | Anglo-Saxon cast copper alloy small long brooch of mid 5th to early 6th century date. The sub-cruciform shaped headplate is 23.47mm wide with notched corners and is slightly bent on the right hand side. The headplate is undecorated, with an incomplete integral lug cast on the reverse to hold the missing pin. The base of the headplate joins a pronounced bow with a D shaped profile. The bow is undecorated, except for narrow rectangular moulding at each end where it joins the headplate and footplate. The survivng section of the footplate is rectangular with a very worn break at the base. There is a raised rectangular moulding on the footplate, divided in two by a horizontal groove, just above the break. The worn catchplate on the reverse of the footplate extends from the base of the bow and continues for two thirds of the length of the surviving footplate. The brooch measures 53.64mm in length, is 11.36mm at the thickest point and weighs 11.67 grams. There is slight pitting on the surface and the brooch has a dark green-black patina. | 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
530 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Andrew Richardson | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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