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Description: | A cast copper-alloy equal-armed brooch of early-medieval (early Anglo-Saxon) date (c. 6th century AD), incomplete only in that it is missing its pin. The flat arms are of slightly different lengths (17.1 and 13.9mm) making the brooch not strictly equal armed. They are broadly T shaped, with the rounded wide ends adjoining the bow (W.: c. 16.0mm). The long elements both taper to terminate in fine knops. Each knop begins with a triple ridge, formed through two incised lines, before a waisted section, before the rounded knop. The faceted bow that joins the arms curves in a shallowly raised arc. There is an oval concavity on the lower surface under the bow. There is a very finely moulded step down from the bow to the arms. The angled sides of the arms are decorated on their upper surface with a very finely incised double line. The flat lower surface features a rectangular catch-plate, curved round to retain the pin, on one arm adjacent to the concavity. At the equivalent position on the other arm the pin lug is obscured by an encrustation of orange-brown corrosion product, suggesting that the pin, or at least, the axis bar was made of iron. The metal has an even dark- brown patina, with some small patches of green corrosion product within the concavity. The form is similar to an example recorded on this database, ref. KENT-8A0D63, given a 5th-century date.
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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