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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy anglo-Saxon/Early-Medieval ansate brooch. It is missing the pin due to old breaks but is otherwise complete. The brooch is rectangular in plan and D-shaped in section with a flat back face and rounded front face. At each end are rectangular terminals that have slightly faceted front faces and are decorated at their ends with double transverse grooves. These are connected by a short but steeply curved bow that is semi-circular in profile, faceted on the outer face and has a prominent central ridge. On the back face of the brooch one terminal has an integrally cast double lug that is semi-circular in form and has central circular apertures. The lug contains the corroded remains of the incomplete iron pin. On the back face of the opposite terminal is an integrally cast catchplate, which is flat, triangular in form and with a foulded outer edge that gives it a U-shaped profile. The entire object measures 34.05mm in length, 5.85mm in width, 15.52mm in height, and weighs 5.43g.This ansate brooch is of Middle Anglo-Saxon date similar to an example from Ipswich (West, 1998: no. 98.6) although with more steeply curved bow. It belongs in Thorle's Group X brooches with an excavated parallel from Ipswich recovered from a 10th century AD context (IAS-4801). It dates to the 8th or 9th centuries AD, c.720-850 AD, if not continuing later into the 10th century.
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