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Description: | An incomplete and worn Early-Medieval/Anglo-Saxon Small-Long brooch. It is missing one side of the headplate, the foot and the pin due to old breaks. The headplate is flat, rectangular in form with diagonal oval shaped notches at the top corners and semi-circular notches at the base next to the bow. It is uncertain whether the front face is decorated due to the preservation of the object. On the back face of the head is an integrally cast semi-circular lug with traces of a corroded iron pin. The bow has a flat back face and domed front face giving it a D-shaped section. At the top and bottom of the bow are rectangular panels that have semi-circular notches on their sides and double transverse grooves at top and bottom. Between the panels the bow is faceted. At the base of the bow extends the incomplete foot. This is rectangular in form, oval shaped in section, with semi-circular notches to the sides at the top, beneath which are three transverse grooves separating the upper part of the foot from the faceted lower half. On the back face of the foot is an integrally cast catchplate, which is rectangular in form with folded outer edge. This brooch measures 50.47mm in length, 19.96mm in width at headplate, 10.16mm in width at bow, 4.03mm in thickness at bow, and weighs 12.80g.This is an Anglo-Saxon small-long brooch similar to examples from Icklingham, Oakley and Pakenham, Suffolk (West, 1998: nos. 56a.14, 118.2, 119.5). It dates to the 6th century, c.500-600 AD
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