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Description: | Early Medieval, British, copper alloy, pen-annular brooch, of Fowler's Type F, now broken. The brooch's hoop has an oval, 3.3 x 2.7mm section and is undecorated. It has pseudo zoomorphic terminals which are rectangular with notches defining a lozenge-shaped central panel. Between the head and the hoop is a lipped moulding. While corrosion makes it difficult to see the details the undersides of the terminals decorated with incised lines, three transverse lines separating them from the hoop and two more across the end, probably linked by a saltire cross. Part of the brooch pin survives, this was cast and consists of a cylinder, 7.0mm diameter x 8.4mm long, decorated by three baluster mouldings. The pin shank has a diameter of 3.1mm, it is incomplete and is down curved. Interestingly, the pin cylinder would not have passed over the enlarged terminals showing that these must have been formed after the pin had been placedDiameter 44.8mm, Terminal width 5.6mm x 3.2mm, Mass 9.33gThese brooches are of considerable importance as they represent a British (sub-Roman) object found in Anglo-Saxon graves. This phenomenon, in Lincolnshire, has recently been discussed by Tom in Green in her 2012 book, Britons and Anglo-Saxons, Lincolnshire AD 400-650, Studies in the History of Lincolnshire, 3, History of Lincolnshire Committee, Lincoln, 71, fn 42.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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