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Description: | Gilded cast copper-alloy brooch fragment, probably from an Early Anglo-Saxon small square headed brooch (late 5th/6th century). Mass: 7.5g, length: 18.1mm, width: 25.5mm, depth: 9.1mm. The fragment consists of a broadly rectangular head-plate which is broken at the bottom. The front of the head-plate is decorated with incised decoration. There is a sub-rectangular central feature, surrounded by a grooved border, beyond with there are curved and straight lines, within two (incomplete) outer borders, the inner of which is grooved. The front of the brooch is gilded, and much of the gilding remains. The reverse of the fragment is flat with two incomplete lugs which would have held the pin. There are traces of the iron pin within the lugs. There is a brown substance adhered to much of the surface of the brooch, probably from its time in the ground. Where neither the gilding or the brown substance is present, the surface is pitted and green in colour. There are brown adhesions on the break, which does not appear to be recent.
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