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Description: | An Early Medieval copper alloy florid cruciform brooch fragment. It is part of a side knob, and consists of a curved terminal, with an asymetric shape. With the terminal pointing downward, the upper part is rectangular, and has relief decoration in the form of a face mask, showing a pair of flaring eyebrows with pellet eyes beneath, a triangular nose in the centre, and two more pellets in a row below the nose. The cheek to the left is curved and protruberant with a raised outside edge. There is a small knop at the centre below the nose and pellets, and the cheek to the right is missing due to old breaks. What is left of it is curving, with a broken edge indicating the position of a perforation. The back is flat, and at the upper edge is a patch of corrosion which obscures the attachment arrangement to the body of the brooch. Examples of similar terminals with grotesque face masks from florid brooches are illustrated from West Stow, in West 1998, fig. 152. See also PAS SF-OAC768 and NMS-D5F994This brooch fragment measures 23.23mm in length, 23.2mm in width and weighs 5.5g.
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