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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy brooch of early Anglo-Saxon date. All that remains is a fragment of the upper bow which is straight-sided and curved; the sides are facetted either side of a central narrow flat spine; there are traces of worn double-crescent stamps down the edges of the facets next to the central flattened area. The bow has a flat panel surviving at the top which is decorated with a pair of notches above a transverse groove. The bow is D-shaped in cross-section; the reverse is undecorated.The metal is a mid brownish-green colour and is worn. The brooch is 22.3mm long, 14.1mm wide, 3.9mm thick and weighs 6.5g.Not enough survives to determine whether the brooch was of cruciform type (with a horse's head terminal) or a small-long (with another form of terminal). It dates to the mid 5th to mid 6th 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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