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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy small-long brooch of Early-Medieval/Anglo-Saxon date. Only the base of the foot survives intact, the remainder now missing due to old breaks. The foot is D-shaped in section with flat back face and rounded front face. This has moulded decoration comprising two transverse ridges separated by a narrow waist or groove. At the base of the foot is a flaring, flat triangular terminal that is decorated at its bottom edge with a raised transverse band. The back face of the foot is flat and undecorated, with the very base of the integral catchplate just visible at the old break, its precise form uncertain. The entire object has a green patina that has some pitting in places. It measures 16.18mm in length, 15.71mm in width, 3.26mm in thickness and 1.79g in weight.This is the foot and terminal end from an Anglo-Saxon long brooch, probably a small-long brooch. It finds parallels in examples published by MacGregor and Bolick (1993: nos. 124-147) and probably dates to the 6th century AD.
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