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Description: | Head and bow from a copper-alloy small-long brooch. The head is square and has a border of deep but indistinct punchmarks around three edges, with the lowest edge next to the bow undecorated. The top and sides each have a tiny knob; the knobs are all identical, with half-round moulding decorated with a fine groove, then a broader groove, then a hemispherical terminal which may once have had a fine groove across its base. On the reverse of the headplate is what is probably a single pin bar lug now hidden in a mass of iron corrosion from the pin bar and spring. The bow has a flat panel at top and bottom with a U-shaped bevel to each side. Between, the bow is very worn, but has a broad central groove flanked by a pair of narrower grooves, and then sloping edges which may have once had punchmarks. The reverse is flat and has file or scratch marks. The break is old and worn. Small-long brooches are an early Anglo-Saxon type and are thought to mainly date from the century 450-550 AD.Surviving length 37 mm, width of headplate 27 mm, weight 9.51g.
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