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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy cruciform brooch of Anglo-Saxon date. It is missing the foot, outer edge of the pin lug, pin and catchplate due to old breaks. The head is flat, rectangular in form with small side panels that are possibly incomplete due to old breaks. At the top of the head is an integrally cast fully round knob that has a dome-shaped head, narrow waist and flattened circular collar. On the back face of the headplate is an integrally cast semi-circular pin lug with the remains of a single circular pin hole, missing its outer edges due to old breaks. Extending from the base of the head is an integral bow. This is steeply curved in profile with concave back face and prominent central mid rib on the front face. At the top and bottom of the bow are flattened rectangular panels, each with triangular notches to either side and decorated on the front face with pairs of incised transverse grooves. The brooch terminates in old breaks at the base of the bow. It measures 43.01mm in surviving length, 10.50mm in width at head, 8.81mm in width at bow, 4.74mm in thickness at bow, and 8.37g in weight. This is an incomplete long brooch of Anglo-Saxon date. Its form suggests it was probably a cruciform brooch, with parallels noted from Suffolk (e.g. West, 1998: figs. 19.2, 96.5, 100.8, 126.6, 128.11, 129.2, 129.5, 133.11). It is of Early-Anglo-Saxon date, c.5th century AD.
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