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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy long brooch of Early-Medieval date, possibly an incomplete cruciform brooch. It is missing most of the foot and the pin due to old breaks. The headplate is rectangular in form with a raised central panel that is trapezoidal in form, tapering towards the top of the head. The rectangular wings to either side have decoration at their outer edges formed from three vertical grooves. At the top of the head is an integrally cast and projecting conical knop that is half round in form and decorated on its front face with multiple transverse grooves running its full length. Single similar but smaller knops are present at each side of the headplate and have similar grooved decoration. On the back face of the head is an integrally cast semi-circular pin lug, missing its outer edge due to old breaks and with iron corrosion where the now missing pin would have originally attached to the lug. The bow is steeply curved, triangular in section with a prominent mid rib and slightly flattened sides. At top and bottom are flattened rectangular panels, that at the bottom having multiple transverse grooves on its front face as well as single triangular notches to either side. Extending from the base of the bow is the integrally cast foot, which is D-shaped in section and terminates in old breaks just beneath the bow. On its front face the surviving fragment of foot has two faceted panels separated by double transverse grooves. An integrally cast catchplate is preserved on the back face of the foot where it joins the bow and is flat, rectangular in form and missing its outer edge due to old breaks. The entire object measures 45.45mm in length, 25.45mm in width at headplate, 6.53mm in width at bow, 6.73mm in thickness at bow, and 11.53g in weight.This is an incomplete long brooch of Anglo-Saxon date. A close parallel is noted on the PAS database from Sussex (SUSS-A36022), which is interpreted as an early cruciform brooch but of unusual type. The current example is of similar form and may well be a cruciform brooch, however the lack of the terminal end of the foot makes a close attribution problematic and it could equally be a small-long or similar brooch. In either case it is of early Anglo-Saxon date, probably dating to the late-5th or 6th centuries AD.
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