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Description: | Early medieval copper alloy cruciform brooch fragment, 42mm long, 9mm wide and 9mm thick. The object is in fair condition and weighs 8.41grams. The object consists of the catchplate area of the brooch which begins at the base of the bow (the curve is just visible). The object is rectangular in form and sub circular in section. The front of the object is decorated with two raised rounded ridges sitting just above its centre. Below this is an extremely sylised animal head, consisting of two rounded protrusions sitting below a recessed chevron. below this is the trace of a snout and the object narrows towards its missing edge. The catchplate is present but incomplete and takes up half of the reverse.
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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