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Description: | Cast copper alloy Early Medieval brooch dating to the 5th or 6th century. The headplate of a cruciform brooch; the lower part is missing. The headplate is sub-rectangular in plan. There is a top knob but the side knobs are missing. The top knob is domed in plan and semi-circular in section, with a plain extension and a collar. There is a single beaded line around the collar of the top knob. The central panel of the headplate has lunate punch marks along both sides. This lunate pattern is repeated along the short sides of the head plate. There is damage to both sides of the headplate but the breaks are old. The brooch is broken where the bow begins. There are patches of light green corrosion product on the breaks and on the top knob and central panel. On the reverse is the remains of the pin lug. There is much light green corrosion product around the pin lug and near the breaks. There is also rust on the reverse.Cruciform brooches were normally worn singly on the breast and, where the context is known,they are almost invariably found in female graves (Macgregor and Bolick, E,1993, A summary catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon collections (non ferrous metals)Ashmolean Museum Oxford, page 95).Width (width of headplate) 45.27mm, length 38.38mm, thickness of central plate 2.26mm, weight 19.7g.See nos. 12.2 and 12.14 in Macgregor and Bolick 1993, pages 100-101.
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