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Description: | A cast copper-alloy side knob from an Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch. It is half round with semi-circular top, narrow neck and raised collar at the base. The front faces of the collar and base of the top have the remains of transverse grooves that are obscured by wear and corrosion. The back face is concave with a central vertical circular aperture running through the object for a now missing iron pin bar, visible at the centre of the back face as an oval shaped perforation. There is also a hole in the apex of the round knob where the bar would have finished. The flat base of the knob has a deeply incised transverse slot for attachment to the side of the headplate, now filled with corrosion. The knob finds parallels with numerous examples from Suffolk (for example West, 1998: 105.5, 124.9, 133.7) and dates to the 6th century, c.500-600 AD.
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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