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Description: | Early Medieval (6th century Anglo-Saxon) small square headed brooch. Only the headplate and upper part of the bow survives. The head is rectangular with a cast design of three raised rectangles, one inside the other, with a raised ridge running vertically from the base of the central rectangle along the bow. The central rectangle has a row of beading along its length. A large amount of gilding survives in the recessed decoration. The reverse of the head has a central lug with a small part of the hinged copper alloy pin attached. There is iron corrosion on either side of the pin lug, and this corrosion is relatively linar, suggesting that the brooch was rested against an iron object. The iron corrosion was examined under a microscope, and there are no apparent traces of textile. The brooch fragment is 16.42mm wide, 13.94mm long, 2.38mm thick increasing to 7.23mm thick to include the pin lug. It weighs 3.01 grams.
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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