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Description: | A cast copper-alloy cruciform brooch of the later 6th century.The brooch is nearly complete, missing a portion of the head and foot terminal, as well as the pin.The head has a slightly raised central panel with wings to either side, making it rectangular in plan. One wing and its sideknob are missing. The remaining sideknob and topknob are cast integral with the head, and are flat bilobed projections. Near the centre of each lobe is an incised dot, and there is a decorated motif across the join of the lobes and the head. One the tobknob, this is an incised rectangle, with a smaller incised rectangle inside and separated by a rectangular arrangement of punched annulets. The sideknob has the small incised rectangle and a similar arrangement of annulets, but these appear to be in a band rather than inside a rectangle. There is a slight trace of punched annulets outlining the outer edges of each lobe.The bow is carinated with a medial ridge and stepped at each end.The foot panel is undecorated and flanked to either side by a largely undecorated lappet, though this is perhaps obscured by corrosion. Each lappet is semicircular in shape. A second panel leads to the foot terminal, which is now missing. However this second panel is simply decorated with a pair of incised lines across the width of the foot above and below a pair of large stamped annulets.Underneath this panel is the hooked catchplate. The underside of the head bears lugs and the corroded iron hinge of the pin.There have been some breaks to the brooch, which the finder has repaired.The flourished headknobs may indicate a date in the later 6th century.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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