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Description: | A fragment of a copper-alloy equal-arm brooch of Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) date (500-600). This fragment comprises the head-plate, part of the bow and the pin lug. The pin is missing.The flat head-plate is sub-triangular in plan and has a break at the top. It has a maximum width of 11.34mm. The bow has parallel sides, 'D'-shaped in cross-section and the lower end is in the form of an old break. The width of the bow is 4.98mm and it has a thickness of 2.35mm. At the rear the single pin lug is 'D'-shaped in side view and is largely obscured by iron corrosion. Decoration on the front of the head consists of ring-and-dot motifs and grooves. At the top, close to the break, there is a weakly stamped ring with three horizontal grooves below. Below these grooves, and roughly central, there is a ring-and-dot motif. In each lower corner of the head-plate there is a weakly stamped ring. However, one of these is barely visible. At the front, the bow has four grooved arcs, one above the other.This brooch has a green patina with small areas of corrosion.There is no trace of surface treatment and no indication of burning or melting.Height: 17.84mm; width: 11.34mm; thickness of plate: 1.86mm; thickness including lug: 5.28mm. Weight: 1.52g.A reasonable comparison could be made with a pair of complete bronze equal-arm brooches from Lyminge, Kent, gr. 24, which have round-angled triangular terminals, although they are more elaborately decorated with Style I animal heads at the base angles (Lyminge report in Archaeologia Cantiana, 69 [1955], pl. 8, 4a-b). A single equal-arm brooch, also from Kent, was illustrated in The Searcher, May issue, 2008, p. 67), but has long, triangular terminals with sharp base angles and a round lobe at each end. But, since the foot-plate is missing it could, perhaps, be an insular version of a Frankish type of small bow brooch with lobed triangular head-plates and rectangular feet (Koch's Hermes/Beauvais type), although as they are usually chip-carved this seems rather less likely.Compare with a similar brooch from the Isle of Wight. See Portable Antiquities Scheme find: IOW-C104C1.
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