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Description: | Fragment of an unusual Early Saxon copper alloy bow brooch, upper part missing, ancient break across junction with foot of bow comprising a rectangular panel with twin engraved lines, footplate with rectangular panel with three transverse lines above a concave-sided inverted T forming the lappets with chamfered sides and bordering double-triangular stamps and with a lower horizontal line of punched dots. Grooved convex moulding at juction with the animal-head terminal with prominent eyes and divided nostrils. Broken of catch-plate on reverse. Surviving length 40mm. Surviving width 26mm. See related forms of brooch from Gooderstone (NHER 34355) NMS-ED02C6, Hillington (NHER 35913) and Holywell Row, Mildenhall, Suffolk (Lethbridge 1931, 34, Plate IID and Leeds 1945, 42-3, fig.26d). Late 5th-6th century.
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