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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy long brooch of Anglo-Saxon date. The lower half of the brooch, pin and perhaps the outer edges of the headplate are all missing due to old breaks, the entire object suffering from extensive copper-alloy corrosion. The headplate is flat, rectangular in form with traces of incised and punched decoration to one side. This comprises a single vertical grooved border with a row of punched triangular motifs running along its inner edge. On the back face of the headplate is an integrally cast semi-circular pin lug that has a central circular aperture and extensive iron corrosion. A slight rectangular ridge runs vertically from the lug to the top of the brooch. The integrally cast bow is rectangular in form with a steeply curved profile and hollow/concave back face. At top and bottom are rectangular panels between which the bow is faceted with a flattened central vertical ridge. It is uncertain whether the panels or bow were originally decorated due to the preservation of the object. The brooch terminates in old breaks at the base of the bow. It measures 47.56mm in length, 28.82mm in width at headplate, 18.80mm in width at bow, 6.12mm in thickness at bow (2.41mm at headplate), and 22.82g in weight.This is an incomplete long brooch of Anglo-Saxon date. Its state of preservation combined with the lack of a foot or evidence for projecting knops or similar decoration at the head make a close identification problematic. In its current state the form might suggest a small-long brooch, however it cannot be ruled out entirely that this is an incomplete and poorly preserved cruciform brooch. In either case it is of early Anglo-Saxon date, probably from the 5th to 6th centuries AD.
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