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Description: | A fragment of a cast copper-alloy early Anglo-Saxon small-long brooch. The fragment consists of the headplate and the bow. The headplate is basically square (actually perhaps slightly trapezoidal, flaring towards the top); the left-hand side is corroded and has a ragged edge. The surviving edge of the headplate is decorated with comma-shaped punchmarks arranged in groups of three, forming broken annulets. The bow has a short flat panel at the top and bottom, with the corner facets cut off. The underside of the head plate carries an integrally cast loop for the pin; a small section of iron axis bar remains in the loop. The brooch has a dark green patina. It is 34mm long, 27.8mm wide and 13.5mm thick. It weighs8.11gm. For reference see West 1998. A Corpus of Anglo Saxon material from Suffolk p. 226 no: 108.8. It was found at a newly discovered cemetery site with other objects of the same date.
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