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Description: | An incomplete, cast copper-alloy cruciform brooch of early Anglo-Saxon manufacture, dating c. 475-600.What remains of the brooch are the bow, with part of the central plate of the head and a lower panel attached to the bow. The central plate is undecorated, with broken edges leaving it in a sub-triangular shape in plan. The underside of the central plate retains a copper-ally lug cast integral with the head and two complete coils of an iron spring-pin corroded in place. The bow has a rectangular panel at each end, each with two inscribed lines running parallel across its width near the upper edge of the panel. These lines on the lower bow panel have irregularly punched dots set within the lines. The rest of the bow, above the panels, is carinated with notched corners. Three lines lightly inscribed along the ridge of the bow run its length. Below the bow is a lower panel of trapezoidal shape, best seen as separated into two halves indicated by a number of features. The upperhalf of the lower panel has incomplete lapets emerging from each side, which may retain Style I decoration, though this is uncertain. Further, the side edges of the panel, separating it from the lapets each bear three irregularly placed stamps consisting of a horseshoe shape around a central dot; these stamps are very light. Separating the upper half of the panel from the lower half is a pair of deeply inscribed lines running across its width. Below these lines, the side edges of the panel are bevelled, and the panel ends with a collar in high relief, also inscribed with three parallel lines across its width. The catchplate emerged from the underside of the lower panel, though this is incomplete.
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