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Description: | A headplate and partial bow fragment of a Great Square headed brooch. This zoomorphic style fits into Hines' Group X.The headplate is approximately 70% intact, with a partial area of the headplate frame and the majority of the headplate second panel in place. Approximately 50% of the bow remains. On the headplate, the decoration appears upside-down from how the brooch would have been worn.The head pateframe depicts an animal head with rounded ears; solid, circular eyes; a square nose decorated with vertical lines; and circular nostrils below. This head appears to be feline. Below this head is an inverted U-shaped frame, with angled corners. This frame is 3mm wide and decorated with a sequence of raised dots. At the central area of this frame is a raised square red glass inlay measuring 7mm x 7mm. The remaining inner frame is decorated with a sequence of angular shapes. The remaining rectangular area between the U-shaped frame and the bow is filed by an anthropomorphic face, with a triangular nose and large round eyes.The bow is 24mm wide and is broken at approximately 15mm from the headplate. Two sub-rectangular inset areas are seperated by a central vertical ridge. towards the top of this vertical ridge is a raised circular bezel, which is 4mm in diameter, and which was probably inlaid with red glass similar to the square one above.The reverse is corroded and the copper alloy is splitting. Towards the lower area of the headplate are two vertical scars of the hinge mechanism. Some iron staining around these scars suggest an iron pin.Similar can be found in "A New Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Great Square Headed Brooches", (plate 35a), found at Broughton Lodge, with the exception that the Broughton Lodge example has noglass inlay/garnet in the headplate rather than the square one in our example.Helen Geake has identified that the brooch has been heat affected, hence its dark appearance and splitting on the reverese. This suggests that it may have been buried in association with a cremation burial.
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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