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Description: | A cast copper-alloy fragment of a square-headed brooch of Anglo-Saxon tradition, dating c. 500-600.Only a fragment of the brooch remains, consisting of part of a square panel of the upper foot (that is, the area immediately below the bow), which has evidence for repair.The display face retains a short length of undecorated border in high relief with a parallel string of pellets in lower relief set just inside. The panel is decorated with what appears to be Style II decoration in chip-carved relief, though not enough remains to interpret the decoration confidently. A small area of this decoration retains very thin gilding on the surface. Near the presumed centre of the fragment, a domed rivet has been punched through the panel. This rivet is visible in section as it is placed near a broken edge of the fragment, and it holds an incomplete sheet of copper alloy in place on the reverse/underside of the brooch.The underside of the fragment has a linear rib in relief, identifying the panel decoration as belonging to the foot, as this rib almost certainly was part of the catchplate. The copper-alloy sheet fixed to the underside by the domed rivet may be a repair to the catchplate, but too little of the object remains to be certain.The broken and abraded edges of the panel indicated that the brooch has probably fragmented after its deposition in the ground.
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