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Description: | An incomplete and corroded Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) cast copper-alloy small-long brooch (c. AD 525-575).The pin is missing and some peripheral material on the head-plate and foot has been lost to damage or corrosion.The flat head-plate is now irregular in plan and may have originally been trefoil-headed. The bow has a height of 14.80mm, a width of 6.20mm at the centre and a maximum thickness of 4.78mm. It is arched in side profile, convex at the front and flat at the rear. The leg is an inverted 'V' shape in plan. The front of the brooch is decorated with ring-and-dot motifs. There are three on the head-plate, four on the bow and four on the leg. At the rear of the head-plate there is a single pin-lug with the corroded remains of an iron spring at each side. On the rear of the leg an incomplete catch-plate is situated just below the bow. The curled-over part of the catch-plate that secured the pin is missing. This brooch is in poor condition and has active corrosion in places. The breaks are old. There is a patch of white metal coating on the rear face adjacent to the catch-plate which is probably tinning. However, none can be seen at the front. No evidence for burning or melting.Height: 33.41mm; width: 9.50mm; thickness: 8.91mm. Weight: 4.33g.The brooch appears to be similar in form to a trefoil-headed example from Pishiobury, Essex, dating to around the mid-6th century (pers. comm. Barry Ager, The British Museum, 16/10/2012)Reference: (S. Tyler, 1994, 'A note on three Saxon brooches from Pishiobury, near Harlow', Essex Archaeology and History, 25 (third series), 263-265, fig. 5, 3).
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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