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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy Anglo-Saxon/Early-Medieval ansate brooch. It is missing the pin due to old breaks but is otherwise complete. The brooch has a curved bow that is triangular in cross-section with flat back and faceted front face. At each end are expanded, flattened terminals. One is rectangular in form with flat back face and faceted front face, and with a transverse rib or ridge at the terminal end. On the back face of this terminal is an integrally cast pin lug that is rectangular in form with a small circular aperture and rectangular projections at each corner, perhaps incomplete due to old breaks. The opposite terminal is triangular in form, tapering towards the terminal end. It has a flat back and slightly faceted front face, with transverse rib or ridge at the terminal end. On the back face of the terminal is an integrally cast hooked catchplate that is rectangular in form and section. The entire object measures 39.41mm in length, 7.62mm in maximum width (4.17mm at bow), 3.62mm in thickness at bow, and 4.55g in weight. This ansate brooch is of Middle Anglo-Saxon date similar to examples recorded from Suffolk (e.g. SF-485CE4, West, 1998: nos. 12.1, 98.6, 134.6). It probably belongs in Thorle's Group X A brooches (Thorle, 2001: figs. 43-44), although also finds similar parallels in Group X C examples (fig. 52 especially nos. 21-22). This brooch dates to the 8th or 9th centuries AD, c.720-850 AD, if not continuing later into the 10th century.
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