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Description: | An incomplete and worn Early-Medieval/Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch. It is missing the lower half of the brooch, side knobs and the pin due to old breaks. The headplate is flat, rectangular in form with rectangular wings that slope backwards at an angle of 45 degrees to the plane of the headplate. At the top of the headplate is a central integrally cast knob, which is fully round with globular top and two transverse collars separated by a narrow neck. On the back face of the headplate there is a mass of copper-alloy and iron corrosion that obscures the now incomplete pin lug and pin, the corrosive products extending to the back face of the knob. The top of the bow survives intact and is rectangular in section with slightly concave back face, terminating in old breaks just beneath the headplate. This brooch measures 27.33mm in length (including knop; 18.22mm excluding knop), 20.55mm in width at headplate, 9.12mm in width at bow, 4.25mm in thickness at bow, and weighs 7.08g.This is an Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch similar to examples from Suffolk (e.g. West, 1998: nos 35.3, 54.8, 133.13). It dates to the 5th century, c.410-500 AD.
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