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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy early-medieval (AD c.500-c.600) small long brooch, missing its pin and part of the catchplate. Overall, the brooch measures 67.2mm long, 33.8mm wide and 15.6mm thick. It weighs 13.04g.The headplate is flat and broadly rectangular, measuring 14.4mm long, 16.6mm wide and 1.7mm thick. It has two flat sub-rectangular side knops (c.9.1mm wide) and a flat sub-rectangular top knob (c.6.4mm long), separated from the headplate by a recessed collar. The lug for the hinge of the pin is in the centre of the reverse of the headplate.The bow projects forward and down from the base of the head plate and then curves down and back towards the foot. In section, the bow is sub-triangular, convex at the front and flat on the reverse. It measures 15.2mm long, tapers in width from 8.9mm wide at the top to 7.9mm at the bottom and measures 3.2mm thick.The foot is mainly flat and sub-rectangular, terminating in an expanded spatulate extension. Immediatey below the bow is the flat panel and the 'half-round' panel, which is decorated with a pair of moulded transverse ridges. On the reverse of these two panels is the catchplate, which is missing its curl. Below these panels the foot is flat. The foot measures 31.3mm long. It tapers in width from 7.6mm at the top to 6.2mm just below the transverse ridges of the 'half-round' panel. It then expands in width to 8.1mm just above the spatulate extension which is 16.6mm wide. The two panels are 2.3mm thick and the rest of the foot is 1.6mm thick.The whole of the front surface of the brooch, excluding the bow, is decorated with a pattern of ring-and-dots.
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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