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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy Anglo-Saxon/Early-Medieval ansate brooch. It is missing the pin and head due to old breaks but is otherwise complete. The brooch is rectangular in plan and D-shaped in section with a flat back face and rounded front face with slight vertical mid rib. At the foot is a rectangular terminal that tapers slightly towards its end, with the incomplete remains of a similar corresponding terminal at the head. The foot has a slight transverse ridge at its tip. The terminal ends are connected by a curved bow that is semi-circular in profile, D-shaped in section and has a transverse moulded ridge at its centre. On the back face of the brooch one terminal (head) has an integrally cast double lug that is semi-circular in form and has central circular apertures, one of which retains the corroded remains of an iron axis bar or pin. On the back face of the opposite terminal is an integrally cast catchplate, which is flat, rectangular in form and set at an angle of ninety degrees to the plane of the brooch/terminal. The entire object has very worn surfaces with traces of a dark brown patina and possible evidence for multiple transverse moulded decoration on the front face, but this is uncertain due to the preservation of the object. It measures 45.01mm in length, 6.78mm in width, 4.26mm in thickness at bow, 18.37mm in height, and weighs 8.08g.This ansate brooch is of Middle Anglo-Saxon date similar to examples recorded from Suffolk (e.g. West, 1998: no. 12.1; SF-03C300, SF-B258C5, SF-77B7A1). It belongs in Thorle's Group XC brooches (Thorle, 2001: fig. 52) and dates to the 8th or 9th centuries AD, c.720-850 AD, if not continuing later into the 10th century.
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