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Description: | Copper alloyPossible Brooch fragment. Cast plate bearing vermiform or floral decoration on its display face; the reverse is concave, though only a little detail of decoration appears as a negative impression here. Two straight edges suggest this derives from the edge of a rectilinear plate. The finder offers an alternative identification as a mount, based on a drilled circular hole of diameter 1.5mm at one edge of the object. This reporter finds the hole a little narrow to accommodate a rivet if this were intended to attach a mount, but adequate to retain a string for beads, as were sometimes worn in close association with Anglo-Saxon brooches. As such, it could represent modification of a florid cruciform or square headed brooch. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 500-600.Length: 16.3mm, Width: 10.8mm, Thickness: 1.9mm, Weight: 1.43gms.
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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