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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy fragment from a Great Square Headed Brooch, of Early Medieval dating (AD 500 to AD 570).The artefact consists of the top right corner of a square mount, with a sub square head above it. Within the square section, the decoration suggests feet or feathers, but the original design is hard to identify. The head has almond shaped eyes, with sub circular pupils within them. An ear or hair is represented by a sub crescentic knop to the left, below the eyes The nose is raised and circular in shape. A horizontal slit is present beneath the nose, and a recessed crescent shape is present to either side of the nose. The style of decoration is consistent with that of Style 1.It measures 23.51 mm in length, 19.03 mm wide and 4.30 mm thick. It weighs 5.4 g.The artefact is a mid to dark green colour, with an even surface patina.Comment from Helen Geake (PAS NFA for Post Roman Artefacts): I'm fairly sure that it is the top corner bit of a great square-headed brooch. There are a few with human masks around the rectangular headplate which at the corners are joined by struts or projections, like on yours. The book (J. Hines 1997, A New Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Great Square-Headed Brooches) has five that are comparable - pl. 3a (Berinsfield, Group I), pl. 14a (Paglesham) and 14b (Linton Heath), both Group IIIs, pl. 87b (unprovenanced, Group XXIV), and pl. 89a (Wasperton, Group XXV). The dates for these are probably all something like 500-570 AD.
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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