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Description: | A damaged and incomplete early-medieval (mid 5th- to 6th-century Anglo-Saxon) cast copper-alloy small-long brooch. It has a trefoilate head-plate, comprising a central square which would have had semicircular arms on three sides. One has been lost in its entirety, the other is abraded with just under half lost. The upper surface is flat and plain. On the lower surface is a semi-circular pin lug. Largely to one side is an iron concretion, the remnant of the pin. The bow is humped in profile with a shallowly curved lower surface which would have left little room to gather material. It has a moulding at each end with small nicks to delineate it on each side. The leg is moulded, with a transverse depression flanked by incised lines, beyond which a series of ?three double transverse bands acting as a collar above the foot. The foot is flared and terminates in a transverse ridge. The lower surface of the leg features the abraded remains of an integrally cast catch-plate, which is now semi-circular.The foot has been broken off in the past but glued back on by the finder. The brooch now has a mid-green patina with some areas of off-white corrosion product. It is similar to examples illustrated in MacGregor and Bolick (1993, 142ff.) and to Hattatt (2000, 376; ref. 1677).
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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