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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy long brooch, either a small-long or cruciform of Early Medieval date. It is missing the pin, the majority of the bow and foot due to old breaks, now worn.The head is flat and sub-triangular in form with a trefoil of integral knobs, one at the top and one to either side. On the back face of the head plate is the remains of an integrally cast copper-alloy pin lug with traces of iron corrosion, possibly from the now missing pin. The bow is D-shaped in section and faceted, with a concave back face. The front face is decorated with a transverse ridge at the top. From here is a central longitudinal groove which terminates in old breaks. The back face is undecorated.This brooch measures 34.65mm in length, 19.79mm in width at the head, 7.35mm in width at the bow, 3.86mm in thickness, 5.89g in weight.There are similar examples recorded from Suffolk (cf West, 1998, no. 16.5, 133.6) and by Penn and Brugmann (Penn and Brugmann, 2007, p. 70, Fig. 5.21) falling in their Phase FA1, sm2 group, c. 450-480 AD. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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