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Description: | Early Anglo-Saxon cast copper-alloy cruciform brooch fragment, 5th or 6th century. Part of the horse-head terminal from the foot survives, with four transverse mouldings at the top of the terminal. The horse's head has prominent pellet eyes; the nose is damaged, but the nostrils are separated and scrolled. The lower part of the catchplate survives on the reverse. Orange-brown patina. Length 39.4mm, width 14.8mm, thickness just below catchplate 5.1mm, weight 8.72g.See MacGregor and Bolick 1993 ('Summary catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon Collections), Oxford) p.99-100 no.s 12.11 & .12, p.107 no.12.31, nos. for examples of brooches with similar decoration.
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