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Description: | This is an incomplete cast copper alloy brooch, most likely dating to the Anglo-Saxon (early Medieval) period. Although the brooch has eluded specific typological identification, it is most similar in shape and style to Anglo-Saxon Radiate Headed Brooches (in this case without radiate finials) or a Small-Long Brooch derivative. The object is geometric in design, with a semi-circular head, an outward curving rectangular neck, and an elongated and triangular catchment end. The pin attachments are intact, with a simple hinge and horizontally protruding catchment plate. However, the pin itself is missing. The brooch is decorated at the head with an incised double row of free-form wavy lines, which follow the perimeter of the top, and a double concentric ring-and-dot incised in the center. Its neck is undecorated, but the triangular catchment end has incised free-form horizontal dashes following the outline of the brooch to its flattened end and a matching double concentric ring-and-dot decoration in the centre. The colour of the metal is a consistently deep jade green with dark orange-brown colouration on the brooch back by its hinge and catchment plate. For related PAS objects see: KENT3392; KENT-09C753; LVPL747; IOW-E94E22; KENT-625842; IOW-25CA93; SF-1A7C75; IOW-65CDF2. For some similar radiate brooches see: Hattatt 2000 (p. 381, fig. 240; also MacGregor and Bolick 1993, 147-149). For Small-Long Brooches involving ring-and-dot motifs and similar shapes: MacGregor and Bolick 1993 (124-147, esp. no. 15.54).With regard to its typology, as similar entry for PAS object KENT-09C753 states, "This brooch has been classed as a miniature radiate headed brooch, due to the semi-curcular headplate shared with Frankish radiate brooched. However, the headplate on this brooch form does not have the radiating knops around its circumference, which gives the radiate brooches their name. Continental brooches of a similar form have been termed 'miniaturefibeln' or miniature brooches. A further study on these small semi-circular headed brooches is needed to understand their relationship woth other brooch forms from this period."
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