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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy cruciform brooch of Early-Medieval/Anglo-Saxon date. It is missing the top of the bow, headplate, pin and terminal end of the foot due to old breaks. The bow is steeply arched, oval shaped in section and with a flat back. It has the remains of rectangular panels at top and bottom, each decorated with multiple incised transverse grooves where the panel and bow meet, the lower panel also decorated with single triangular notches to either side. The bow between them is slightly faceted with a central vertical ridge decorated with three incised grooves. Beneath the bow the upper half of the foot is flat, rectangular in form, with a rectangular panel at the top decorated with double incised transverse grooves and a faceted front face below. The terminal end of the foot is in the form of a moulded horse head. This has a raised brow with incised triangle beneath which are two prominent and bulging oval shaped eyes. The snout of the beast below the eyes narrows slightly before expanding to prominent flaring nostrils that are semi-circular in form and join at a rounded base. Projecting from the base of the foot is an incomplete terminal loop that is set at right angles to the plane of the foot and is now missing its outer edges due to old breaks. The back face of the foot is flat and undecorated and preserves the remains of the integrally cast catchplate. This is rectangular in form and missing its outer edge due to old breaks. The entire brooch fragment measures 61.19mm in length, 10.79mm in width (at bow), 3.01mm in thicknes (at bow, 5.69mm at terminal), and weighs 15.16g.This is the foot from an incomplete cruciform brooch of Anglo-Saxon date. The horse head terminal finds parallels in other examples from Suffolk (e.g. West, 1998: nos. 17.1, 45.3, 51.4, 100.8, 136.2), the terminal loop also noted on examples from Lakenheath (114.2), Mildenhall (116.10) and Tuddenham St Mary (130.1). These suggest a probable 6th century AD date for the current example, c.500-600 AD.
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