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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy cruciform brooch of Anglo-Saxon date. Only the foot and part of the catchplate survive intact, and appear to have been subject to burning or exposure to high termperatures, the remainder of the brooch now missing due to old breaks. The foot of the brooch is flat, oval shaped in section with a flat back face and moulded front face that has a zoomorphic terminal. At its top the foot has a flat rectangular panel beneath which it is faceted. At the top of the terminal is a collar formed from a series of moulded transverse bands from which extend the zoomorphic terminal. This is D-shaped in section and in the form of a horses head with projecting sub-circular eyes, a rounded snout with central ridge and projecting nostrils. Any decorative detail is obscured due to the preservation of the object. On the back face of the foot is an integrally cast copper-alloy catchplate that has suffered from extensive exposure to heat, its precise form uncertain. The entire object measures 33.08mm in length (bent), 8.90mm in width, 3.86mm in thickness and weighs 5.45g.This is an incomplete Early Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch similar to other examples noted in Suffolk (e.g. West, 1998: nos. 48.7, 100.8, 133.11). It is of Early Anglo-Saxon date, probably from the 5th-6th centuries AD, c.410-550 AD if not a little later.
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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