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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy long brooch of Anglo-Saxon date, either a cruciform or small-long brooch. It is missing parts of the headplate, the pin, outer edge of the catchplate and terminal end of the foot due to old breaks. The headplate is flat, cruciform with a central rectangular panel and the remains of semi-circular arms at top and to each side. Only one of the arms, to the left of the head, now survives due to old breaks. The front face of the head has decoration comprising a grooved border around the central panel with a row of punched copncentric semi-circles along its inner edge. The surviving arm has a border of punched concentric semi-circles running around the outer edge and separating the arm from the centre of the head. On the back face of the head is a single semi-circular pin lug holing in place the corroded remains of the incomplete iron pin. From the base of the head extends the bow. This is rectangular in form, curved in profile, and slightly concave on its back face. The front face of the bow has flattened rectangular panels at top and bottom, the bow between them is facete with a slight vertical mid rib. Extending from the base of the bow is the integral foot. This is flat, rectangular in form and decorated on its front face with double transverse grooves, terminating in old breaks at a double transverse moulded collar. On the back face of the foot is an incomplete but integrally cast rectangular catchplate that is missing its outer edge due to old breaks and has a small fragment of the iron pin attached to it as a result of post-depositional corrosion. The entire object measures 47.47mm in length, 28.97mm in width at head, 3.29mm in thickness (at bow), and 11.67g in weight.This is an incomplete copper-alloy long brooch of Anglo-Saxon date. The lack of the terminal end of the foot makes close identification of from problematic and it could have been either a cruciform or small-long brooch (similar to examples published from Suffolk (West, 1998: nos. 48.13, 50.5, 112.1, 117.3)). In either case it is likely to date to the 5th or 6th centuries AD, c.450-550 AD.
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