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Description: | Description: A fragment of a Middle or Late Anglo-Saxon silver brooch. Originally cruciform, the fragment consists of the splayed or pelta-shaped terminal of one arm, with just over one coil of an incomplete integral spring projecting from the edge and coiling under the plate. The plate is broken along the straight edge of a further panel forming the arm of the cross or perhaps the centre of the brooch.The terminal probably originally joined the terminals of the neighbouring arms to form apertures in the internal angles of the cross, across which the plate is now broken. The terminal is decorated on one face with a panel containing a Trewhiddle-style beast in profile looking left, with upturned head, open mouth biting a pellet, large ear, and two transverse grooves forming a collar around the neck. The tail is interlaced around the body; there may have been a foreleg and hindleg, but the detail is unclear here. The animal is reserved on a field of niello now partially missing.The break across the body of the brooch is patinated but not very worn. One break on the terminal of the arms of cross is patinated and worn, the other less patinated and less worn. None appear to be very recent.Dimensions: Surviving length 18mm. Surviving width 21mm. Thickness of plate less than 1mm. Weight 1.3g.Discussion: Fragments of similar silver brooches are recorded on the PAS database including NMS-972E58(a) (HER57139), BM-138695, NMS-3643E6 and LIN-9B7487. A complete copper-alloy example can be found at LIN-01DE95. These are sometimes known as Elmsett-type brooches from an example found at Elmsett in Suffolk (West 1998, 25, fig. 24.6).Date: The use of Trewhiddle style is common on this type of brooch, and dates them broadly to the 9th century AD.
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