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Description: | Incomplete Early Saxon cruciform brooch, attached half-round terminal knob, side knobs missing, trapezoidal wings and raised central panel with bordering lines of tiny punched dots, facetted bow with groove along arris, cracked and twisted to one side towards junction with leg, rectangular panels, the lower with chamfered sides bordered with tiny punched dots, semi-circular sectioned triple ribs at springing of hollow-backed animal-head with twin longitudinal lines of tiny punched dots, terminal missing. Pierced lug with corroded fragment of iron spring, iron staining from axis bar and intact catch-plate on reverse. 47 x >131mm (unbent). Recent break across angle of one wing, other breaks rather older if not ancient. Late 5th century.
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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