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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 with semicircular arms on three sides. On the upper surface there are pairs of incisions delineating the recesses between the arms and the central plate. The pin lug has been lost on the lower surface. An off-centre hole (Dia.: 2.5mm) is presumably a repair: a means by which a replacement pin could be attached, perhaps through a ring or an ad hoc lug. One of the arms has been bent downwards slightly and there is a diagonal gouge on the upper surface of the central plate. The bow is with a faceted upper surface; it is humped in profile with a shallowly curved lower surface which would have left little room to gather material. The leg is moulded, with a transverse depression flanked by incised lines, beyond which a transverse ridge itself decorated with an incision. Beyond the ridge there appears to be an old break; the flared terminal beyond is seemingly missing. The lower surface of the leg has the slightly abraded remains of an integrally cast catch-plate, which is sub-triangular. Both the bow and leg have been twisted to one side as a result of old damage. The brooch now has a dark-green patina with some patches of lighter pitting. It brooch is similar to examples illustrated in MacGregor and Bolick (1993, 142ff.).
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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