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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy Anglo-Saxon/Early-Medieval ansate brooch. It is missing the pin, most of the catchplate and possibly the ends of the pin lug due to old breaks. The brooch is flat, rectangular in form with flattened rectangular terminals connected by a gently curving bow of the same width. Where the bow and terminals meet are the remains of small semi-circular or sub-rectangular knops projecting from each side of the brooch. The front face of the brooch is decorated with single incised grooves running down each side forming a slightly uneven border. Between the grooves is a single band of punched ring and dot motifs, four of which are visible on the bow and one each on the terminals. The ring and dot motifs on the terminals appear to extend off the ends of the brooch and this may indicate either the brooch is incomplete at each end, or that the decoration was simply unevenly applied. On the back face of the brooch one terminal has an integrally cast double lug that is rectangular in form and appears to be missing its outer edge as no aperture for the pin is visible. The opposite terminal has a single incomplete rectangular catchplate, missing its outer edge due to old breaks. The entire object measures 37.38mm in length, 10.37mm in width (at bow, 12.37mm at side knops), 2mm in thickness at bow, 9.98mm in height, and weighs 5.07g.This ansate brooch is of Middle Anglo-Saxon date. It probably belongs within Thorle's Group XI brooches (Thorle, 2001) and dates to the 8th or 9th centuries AD, c.720-850 AD, if not slightly later.
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