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Description: | A cast copper alloy Anglo-Saxon small long brooch in good condition and missing only its pin. The brooch has a cross-potent derivative head plate that is outlined with punched circles. The inner corners of the head plate are accentuated with a inward pointing triangular nick; the top two corners also have a punched circle at the base of each nick. The arched bow leads into two sections of tripple-ribbed moulding, which separtes the bow from the crescentic foot. The foot is again outlined with punched circles as decoration. On the reverse the pin hinge lug and the catchplate are both retained but the pin is missing. Some iron and soil concretion is present around the pin lug and under the arch of the bow, otherwise this brooch is in very good condition. Small long brooches were in use during the early Anglo-Saxon period (AD c.410-720) and are generally dated to the 6th century AD.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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